Marco Paolini

Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author

Marco Paolini

Born	(1956-03-05) 5 March 1956 (age 68) Belluno, Italy
Occupation	Stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author
Nationality	Italian
Genre	Narrative theatre Civil theatre
Website
www.jolefilm.com

Marco Paolini (born 5 March 1956) is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author.^[1]

Personal background

Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer and a housewife from Belluno, Italy. In the 1970s, he moved to Treviso and started working in theatre.^[1]

Professional background

Paolini's repertory includes civil theatre.^[2] His performances usually consist of monologues with frequent use of the Venetian language, irony and satire. Inspired by Dario Fo, he is an Italian exponent of narrative theatre.^[2]^[3]

Until 1994, Paolini worked with various theatre groups, including Teatro degli Stracci, Studio 900 of Treviso, Tag Teatro of Mestre in Venice and Laboratorio Teatro Settimo.^[1] In 1995, received the Ubu Prize for writing Il racconto del Vajont (translated: The Vajont Tale), which was dedicated to the disaster of the Vajont Dam in Italy. The ceremony aired on Rai 2 Italian television.^[2]^[4]

Since 1999, he has produced his own works with his company JoleFilm. He has also collaborated with the Italian folk band I Mercanti di Liquore, along with the lead singer, Lorenzo Monguzzi.^[5]

Theatre^[6]

Album teatrali (five tales from 1987 to 1999)
Il racconto del Vajont (1994)
Appunti forestali (1996)
Il milione – Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini (1997)
Appunti foresti dal Milione quaderno veneziano (2002)
I Bestiari (four tales from 1998 to 1999)
I-TIGI Canto per Ustica (dedicated to the Ustica Massacre) (2000)
Parlamento chimico – Storie di plastica (2001)
Song no. 32 (2003)
Karma-Kola (2006)
Teatro Civico, sei monologhi per Report (six tales, 2003)
Album dal teatro alla televisione (13 tales, 2005)

Miserabili – Io e Margaret Thatcher (2007)
Il Sergente (inspired by Il sergente nella neve (1953) by Mario Rigoni Stern) (2007)
Album d'Aprile (2008)
La macchina del capo (Racconto di Capodanno) (2009)
Ausmerzen (2012)
Itis Galileo (2012)

Filmography

Manila Paloma Blanca – Daniele Segre (1992)^[7]
Caro diario – Nanni Moretti (1993)^[7]
Il toro – Carlo Mazzacurati (1995)^[7]
I piccoli maestri – Daniele Luchetti (1998)^[7]
Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern – C. Mazzacurati and M. Paolini (1999)^[7]
La lingua del santo – Carlo Mazzacurati (2000)^[7]
Vivere – Franco Bernini (2001)^[7]
A cavallo della tigre – Carlo Mazzacurati (2002)^[7]

Discography

Marco Paolini legge Ernesto Calzavara (2001)
Sputi, with the "Mercanti di Liquore" (2004)^[8]
Marcovaldo di Calvino letto da Paolini (Audiobook with "L'espresso") (2006)
Miserabili with the "Mercanti di Liquore" (2008)^[5]

Bibliography

Presotto, Carlo. L'isola e i teatri, Bulzoni (2001)
Cannella, Claudia. "Dossier Teatro di Narrazione," in Hystrio (2005)
Guccini, Gerardo. La bottega dei narratori, Rome: Dino Audino editore (2005)
Soriani, Simone. "Dario Fo, il teatro di narrazione, la nuova performance epica. Per una genealogia di un quasi-genere," in Forum Italicum (2005)
Perissinotto, Cristina. "Polo, Paolini e Venezia: riflessioni lagunari," in Italica (2005)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c (in Italian) Biography of Marco Paolini (International Institute for Theater Research)
^ ^a ^b ^c (in Italian) Article about Marco Paolini on elapsus.it
^ (in Italian) Article Archived 2004-09-26 at the Wayback Machine on Encarta. Archived 2009-11-01
^ (in Italian) Ubu prizes
^ ^a ^b (in Italian) Infos on the Mercanti di Liquore official website
^ (in Italian) Works of Marco Paolini: theatre
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h (in Italian) Marco Paolini on mymovies.it
^ (in Italian) Sputi on antiwarsongs.org

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Marco Paolini.

Marco Paolini at IMDb
(in Italian) Marco Paolini and JoleFilm official website

Recipients of the Mondello Prize

Single Prize for Literature

Bartolo Cattafi (1975)
Achille Campanile (1976)
Günter Grass (1977)

Special Jury Prize

Denise McSmith (1975)
Stefano D'Arrigo (1977)
Yury Trifonov (1978)
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1979)
Pietro Consagra (1980)
Ignazio Buttitta, Angelo Maria e Ela Ripellino (1983)
Leonardo Sciascia (1985)
Wang Meng (1987)
Mikhail Gorbachev (1988)
Peter Carey, José Donoso, Northrop Frye, Jorge Semprún, Wole Soyinka, Lu Tongliu (1990)
Fernanda Pivano (1992)
Associazione Scrittori Cinesi (1993)
Dong Baoucum, Fan Boaci, Wang Huanbao, Shi Peide, Chen Yuanbin (1995)
Xu Huainzhong, Xiao Xue, Yu Yougqnan, Qin Weinjung (1996)
Khushwant Singh (1997)
Javier Marías (1998)
Francesco Burdin (2001)
Luciano Erba (2002)
Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo (2003)
Marina Rullo (2006)
Andrea Ceccherini (2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas (2009)
Francesco Forgione (2010)

First narrative work

Carmelo Samonà (1978)
Fausta Garavini (1979)

First poetic work

Giovanni Giuga (1978)
Gilberto Sacerdoti (1979)

Prize for foreign literature

Prize for foreign poetry

Jannis Ritsos (1978)
Joseph Brodsky (1979)
Juan Gelman (1980)
Gyula Illyés (1981)

First work

Valerio Magrelli (1980)
Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli, Walter Valeri, Laura Mancinelli (1981)
Jolanda Insana (1982)
Daniele Del Giudice (1983)
Aldo Busi (1984)
Elisabetta Rasy, Dario Villa (1985)
Marco Lodoli, Angelo Mainardi (1986)
Marco Ceriani, Giovanni Giudice (1987)
Edoardo Albinati, Silvana La Spina (1988)
Andrea Canobbio, Romana Petri (1990)
Anna Cascella (1991)
Marco Caporali, Nelida Milani (1992)
Silvana Grasso, Giulio Mozzi (1993)
Ernesto Franco (1994)
Roberto Deidier (1995)
Giuseppe Quatriglio, Tiziano Scarpa (1996)
Fabrizio Rondolino (1997)
Alba Donati (1998)
Paolo Febbraro (1999)
Evelina Santangelo (2000)
Giuseppe Lupo (2001)
Giovanni Bergamini, Simona Corso (2003)
Adriano Lo Monaco (2004)
Piercarlo Rizzi (2005)
Francesco Fontana (2006)
Paolo Fallai (2007)
Luca Giachi (2008)
Carlo Carabba (2009)
Gabriele Pedullà (2010)

Foreign author

Alain Robbe-Grillet (1982) • Thomas Bernhard (1983) • Adolfo Bioy Casares (1984) • Bernard Malamud (1985) • Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1986) • Doris Lessing (1987) • V. S. Naipaul (1988) • Octavio Paz (1989) • Christa Wolf (1990) • Kurt Vonnegut (1991) • Bohumil Hrabal (1992) • Seamus Heaney (1993) • J. M. Coetzee (1994) • Vladimir Voinovich (1995) • David Grossman (1996) • Philippe Jaccottet (1998) • Don DeLillo (1999) • Aleksandar Tišma (2000) • Nuruddin Farah (2001) • Per Olov Enquist (2002) • Adunis (2003) • Les Murray (2004) • Magda Szabó (2005) • Uwe Timm (2006) • Bapsi Sidhwa (2007) • Viktor Yerofeyev (2009) • Edmund White (2010) • Javier Cercas (2011) • Elizabeth Strout (2012) • Péter Esterházy (2013) • Joe R. Lansdale (2014) • Emmanuel Carrère (2015) • Marilynne Robinson (2016) • Cees Nooteboom (2017)

Italian Author

Alberto Moravia (1982)
Vittorio Sereni alla memoria (1983)
Italo Calvino (1984)
Mario Luzi (1985)
Paolo Volponi (1986)
Luigi Malerba (1987)
Oreste del Buono (1988)
Giovanni Macchia (1989)
Gianni Celati, Emilio Villa (1990)
Andrea Zanzotto (1991)
Ottiero Ottieri (1992)
Attilio Bertolucci (1993)
Luigi Meneghello (1994)
Fernando Bandini, Michele Perriera (1995)
Nico Orengo (1996)
Giuseppe Bonaviri, Giovanni Raboni (1997)
Carlo Ginzburg (1998)
Alessandro Parronchi (1999)
Elio Bartolini (2000)
Roberto Alajmo (2001)
Andrea Camilleri (2002)
Andrea Carraro, Antonio Franchini, Giorgio Pressburger (2003)
Maurizio Bettini, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nelo Risi (2004)
pr. Raffaele Nigro, sec. Maurizio Cucchi, ter. Giuseppe Conte (2005)
pr. Paolo Di Stefano, sec. Giulio Angioni (2006)
pr. Mario Fortunato, sec. Toni Maraini, ter. Andrea Di Consoli (2007)
pr. Andrea Bajani, sec. Antonio Scurati, ter. Flavio Soriga (2008)
pr. Mario Desiati, sec. Osvaldo Guerrieri, ter. Gregorio Scalise (2009)
pr. Lorenzo Pavolini, sec. Roberto Cazzola, ter. (2010)
pr. Eugenio Baroncelli, sec. Milo De Angelis, ter. Igiaba Scego (2011)
pr. Edoardo Albinati, sec. Paolo Di Paolo, ter. Davide Orecchio (2012)
pr. Andrea Canobbio, sec. Valerio Magrelli, ter. Walter Siti (2013)
pr. Irene Chias, sec. Giorgio Falco, ter. Francesco Pecoraro (2014)
pr. Nicola Lagioia, sec. Letizia Muratori, ter. Marco Missiroli (2015)
pr. Marcello Fois, sec. Emanuele Tonon, ter. Romana Petri (2016)
pr. Stefano Massini, sec. Alessandro Zaccuri, ter. Alessandra Sarchi (2017)

"Five Continents" Award

Kōbō Abe, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Germaine Greer, Wilson Harris, José Saramago (1992)
Kenzaburō Ōe (1993)
Stephen Spender (1994)
Thomas Keneally, Alberto Arbasino (1996)
Margaret Atwood, André Brink, David Malouf, Romesh Gunesekera, Christoph Ransmayr (1997)

"Palermo bridge for Europe" Award

Dacia Maraini (1999)
Alberto Arbasino (2000)

Ignazio Buttitta Award

Nino De Vita (2003)
Attilio Lolini (2005)
Roberto Rossi Precerotti (2006)
Silvia Bre (2007)

Supermondello

Tiziano Scarpa (2009)
Michela Murgia (2010)
Eugenio Baroncelli (2011)
Davide Orecchio (2012)
Valerio Magrelli (2013)
Giorgio Falco (2014)
Marco Missiroli (2015)
Romana Petri (2016)
Stefano Massini (2017)

Special award of the President

Ibrahim al-Koni (2009)
Emmanuele Maria Emanuele (2010)
Antonio Calabrò (2011)

Poetry prize

Antonio Riccardi (2010)

Translation Award

Evgenij Solonovic (2010)

Identity and dialectal literatures award

Gialuigi Beccaria e Marco Paolini (2010)

Essays Prize

Marzio Barbagli (2010)

Mondello for Multiculturality Award

Kim Thúy (2011)

Mondello Youths Award

Claudia Durastanti (2011)
Edoardo Albinati (2012)
Alessandro Zaccuri (2017)

"Targa Archimede", Premio all'Intelligenza d'Impresa

Enzo Sellerio (2011)

Prize for Literary Criticism

Salvatore Silvano Nigro (2012)
Maurizio Bettini (2013)
Enrico Testa (2014)
Ermanno Cavazzoni (2015)
Serena Vitale (2016)
Antonio Prete (2017)

Award for best motivation

Simona Gioè (2012)

Special award for travel literature

Marina Valensise (2013)

Special Award 40 Years of Mondello

Gipi (2014)

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