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Mario Tobino (16 January 1910, Viareggio, Province of Lucca, Tuscany – 11 December 1991, Agrigento) was an Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist. A prolific writer, he began as a poet but later wrote mostly novels.
Mario Tobino è stato uno psichiatra, scrittore e poeta italiano. Scrittore prolifico, esordì prima come poeta per poi affermarsi come romanziere. Le sue opere sono segnate da uno spiccato autobiografismo e da una forte connotazione psicologica e sociale.
Mario Tobino has 45 books on Goodreads with 3980 ratings. Mario Tobino’s most popular book is Le libere donne di Magliano.
Dec 11, 1991 · Mario Tobino was an Italian poet, writer and psychiatrist. A prolific writer, he began as a poet but later wrote mostly novels. His works are characterized by a strong autobiographical inspiration, and usually deal with social and psychological themes.
In Italian literature: Social commitment and the new realism. …provincial life under fascism—for example, Mario Tobino’s Bandiera nera (1950; “Black Flag”) and Goffredo Parise’s Prete bello (1954; “The Handsome Priest”; Eng. trans. The Priest Among the Pigeons ).
In 1943 he was an active member of the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi-Fascists in Tuscany, and he used this experience of the partisan struggle and fratricide as the basis of his novel The Underground.
Jan 16, 2022 · Tobino was a prolific writer whose works dealt with social and psychological themes. His novel, Il c landestino, inspired by his experiences fighting as a partisan to liberate Italy in 1944, won him the Premio Strega, the most prestigious Italian literary award.
