Gesualdo Bufalino

Gesualdo Bufalino (1920-1996) was an Italian writer born in Comiso, Sicily, who debuted late in life with the semiautobiographical novel Diceria dell'untore (1981), which won the Campiello Prize and drew from his tuberculosis sanatorium experiences. EBSCO. His subsequent works like Argo il cieco (1984) and Le menzogne della notte (1988), the latter earning Italy's prestigious Strega Prize, established him as a postmodern master blending memory, metafiction, and Sicilian themes. Congress.