12 Facts About Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.

Antonio Tabucchi was awarded the French prize "Medicis etranger" for Indian Nocturne and the premio Campiello, and the Aristeion Prize for Sostiene Pereira.

Antonio Tabucchi was born in Pisa, Italy, but grew up at his maternal grandparents' home in Vecchiano, a nearby village.

Antonio Tabucchi specialized at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in the seventies and in 1973 he was appointed as a teacher of Portuguese Language and Literature in Bologna.

Antonio Tabucchi published Piccoli equivoci senza importanza in 1985 and, the next year, Il filo dell'orizzonte.

In 1997 Antonio Tabucchi wrote the novel The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro based on the true story of a man whose headless corpse was found in a park.

Also in 1997, Antonio Tabucchi wrote Marconi, se ben mi ricordo, followed the next year by L'Automobile, la Nostalgie et l'Infini.

In 2001 Antonio Tabucchi published the epistolary novel, Si sta facendo sempre piu tardi.

Antonio Tabucchi used to spend six months of the year in Lisbon, with his wife, a native of the city, and their two children.

Antonio Tabucchi considered himself a writer only in an ontological sense because from the existential point of view, he was glad to define himself as a "university professor".

Antonio Tabucchi regularly contributed articles to the cultural pages of the newspapers Corriere della Sera and El Pais.

Antonio Tabucchi died in a hospital in Lisbon on 25 March 2012, after a long battle with cancer.