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Italo Svevo

Birth name: Ettore Schmitz, Арон Хектор Шмиц

Also known as: Aron Ettore Schmitz, Ettore Schmitz, Aron Hector Schmitz, Hector Schmitz, Ettore Samigli

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Place of birth:

Trieste Show on Google Maps

Birth date:

1861-12-19 • Birth Sign: Sagittarius

Citizenship:

Kingdom of Italy, Austria–Hungary

Death date:

1928-09-13 (66 years old)

Short Bio:

Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature.

He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.

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Arts and culture Business and finance writer playwright translator businessperson novelist Trieste Kingdom of Italy Austria–Hungary