# Ferdinando Camon

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'''Ferdinando Camon''' (born 1935 in Montagnana) is a contemporary Italian writer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/22/books/in-short-fiction-237325.html|title=IN SHORT: FICTION|last=Marcus|first=James|date=22 December 1985|work=The New York Times|page=18|accessdate=18 June 2011}}</ref> He is married to a journalist and has two sons: [Alessandro Camon](/source/Alessandro_Camon), a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles, and Alberto, who teaches criminal procedure and lives in Bologna. He has contributed to a number of Italian and foreign daily newspapers, including ''[La Stampa](/source/La_Stampa)'', ''[l'Unità](/source/l'Unit%C3%A0)'', ''[Avvenire](/source/Avvenire)'', ''[Le Monde](/source/Le_Monde)'' and ''[La Nación](/source/La_Naci%C3%B3n)''.

Perhaps Camon's best-known work in English is his trilogy of fictional memoirs consisting of ''The Fifth Estate'' (''Il Quinto Stato''), ''Life Everlasting'' (''La Vita Eterna''), and ''Memorial'' (''Un altare per la madre'').

==Works==
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*''Il Quinto Stato'', Garzanti, 1970
*''La Vita Eterna'', Garzanti, 1972
*''Liberare l'animale'', Garzanti, 1973
*''Occidente'', Garzanti, 1975
*''Storia di Sirio'', Garzanti, 1984
*''Un altare per la madre'', Garzanti, 1978
*''La malattia chiamata uomo'', Garzanti, 1981
*''La donna dei fili'', Garzanti, 1986
*''Il canto delle balene'', Garzanti, 1989
*''Il Super-Baby'', Rizzoli, 1991
*''Mai visti sole e luna'', Garzanti, 1994
*''La Terra è di tutti'', Garzanti, 1996
*''Dal silenzio delle campagne'', Garzanti, 1998
*''Conversazione con Primo Levi''
*''La cavallina, la ragazza e il diavolo'', Garzanti, 2004
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==Awards==
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*Premio Luigi Russo (''Il Quinto Stato'')
*Premio Città di Prato (''La vita eterna'')
*Premio Viareggio di poesia (''Liberare l'animale'')
*Premio Strega (''Un altare per la madre'')
*Premio Giornalista del mese (al tempo di ''Occidente'')
*Premio Selezione Campiello (''La donna dei fili'')
*Premio Selezione Campiello (''Il canto delle balene'')
*Premio Elsa Morante (''Il Super-Baby'')
*Premio Stazzema Alla Resistenza (''Mai visti sole e luna'')
*Premio Pen Club (''Mai visti sole e luna'')
*Premio Città di Bologna (''Dal silenzio delle campagne'')
*Premio Giovanni Verga (''La cavallina, la ragazza e il diavolo'')
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==References==
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Category:20th-century Italian novelists
Category:20th-century Italian male writers
Category:21st-century Italian novelists
Category:1935 births
Category:Strega Prize winners
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century Italian male writers

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