{{Short description|Swiss writer (1921–2013)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}} thumb|Giorgio Orelli in 1994 '''Giorgio Orelli''' (25 May 1921 &ndash; 10 November 2013) was an Italian-speaking Swiss poet, writer and translator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tio.ch/News/Ticino/764074/L-addio-a-Giorgio-Orelli-Torneremo-a-incontrarlo-con-riconoscenza/ |title=Ticinonline - L'addio a Giorgio Orelli: "Torneremo a incontrarlo con riconoscenza" |publisher=Tio.ch |date=2013-01-01 |access-date=2013-11-18}}</ref>

He was born in Airolo in the canton of Ticino and was educated at the University of Fribourg, where he was a student of the Roman philologist Gianfranco Contini. He taught Italian Literature at the Higher School of Commerce in Bellinzona.

Giorgio Orelli was a post-hermetic poet. In the anthology of Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, he appeared as a poet of the Fourth Generation.<ref>Piero Chiara and Luciano Erba, Quarta generazione: la giovane poesia (1945-1954), Magenta, Varese, 1954</ref> Called the Tuscan from Ticino by Gianfranco Contini, Orelli was often associated with the "Lombard Line" of "sober moral realism".<ref>Encyclopædia Britannica [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/722071/Giorgio-Orelli]</ref>

He was also known as a translator of Goethe and Andri Peer. He contributed to various literary magazines (''Il Verri'', ''Paragone'', ''Letteratura''). His cousin Giovanni Orelli was also a writer and poet.

Giorgio Orelli died in Bellinzona in 2013. He was the cousin of the writer Giovanni Orelli and the uncle of the alpine skier Michela Figini.

==Poetic works==

*''Né bianco né viola'', Lugano, Collana di Lugano, 1944. *''Prima dell'anno nuovo'', Bellinzona, Leins e Vescovi, 1952. *''Poesie'', Milan, Edizioni della Meridiana, 1953. *''Nel cerchio familiare'', Milan, Scheiwiller, 1960. *''L'ora del tempo'', Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1962. *''6 poesie'', Milan, Scheiwiller, 1964. *''5 poesie'', con 5 seriografie di Madja Ruperti, San Nazzaro, Switzerland, Serigrafia San Nazzaro, 1973. *''Sinopie'', Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1977. *''Spiracoli'', Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989. *''Il collo dell'anitra'', Milan, Garzanti, 2001.

===Poems translated in English===

* by Lynne Lawner in Verse Daily,<ref>{{cite web|author=Verse Daily |url=http://www.versedaily.org/aboutgiorgioorellic.shtml |title=Giorgio Orelli, translated by Lynne Lawner |publisher=Verse Daily |access-date=2013-11-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Verse Daily |url=http://www.versedaily.org/carnivalprato.shtml |title=Carnival at Prato |publisher=Verse Daily |access-date=2013-11-18}}</ref> and Jean Garrigue, ed. Translations by American Poets, Ohio University Press, Ohio, 1970 * by Marco Sonzogni [http://contrappassomag.wordpress.com],<ref>{{cite web|author=da samgha |url=http://samgharivista.com/2013/05/11/orelli-tradotto/ |title=Earthly Wonders: the Poetry of Giorgio Orelli |publisher=Samgharivista.com |access-date=2013-11-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017225148/http://samgharivista.com/2013/05/11/orelli-tradotto/ |archive-date=2013-10-17 }}</ref>

==Prose==

*''Un giorno della vita'', Milan, Lerici, 1960. *''Pomeriggio bellinzonese'' in ''Luci e figure di Bellinzona negli acquerelli di William Turner e nelle pagine di Giorgio Orelli'', a cura di Virgilio Gilardoni, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1978.

==Translations==

*Johann Wolfgang Goethe, ''Poesie scelte'', Milan, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1974.

==Essays== *''Accertamenti verbali'', Milan, Bompiani, 1978. *''Quel ramo del lago di Como'', Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1982 e 1990. *''Accertamenti montaliani'', Bologna, Il Mulino, 1984. *''Il suono dei sospiri'', Turin, Einaudi, 1990. *''Foscolo e la danzatrice'', Parma, Pratiche, 1992. *''La qualità del senso. Dante, Ariosto e Leopardi'', Bellinzona, Casagrande, 2012.

==Awards==

* 1944 Premio Lugano * 1960 Premio Città di Firenze, Premio Libera Stampa * 1979 Honorary Degree, University of Fribourg * 1988 Grand Prix Schiller of the Swiss Schiller Foundation * 1997 UBS Culture Foundation * 2001 Premio Piero Chiara * 2002 Bagutta Prize * 2008 BSI Award ([https://www.bsibank.com/en/Gruppo-BSI/Impegno-culturale/Fondazioni-BSI/Fondazione-del-Centenario/Giorgio-Orelli.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084316/https://www.bsibank.com/en/Gruppo-BSI/Impegno-culturale/Fondazioni-BSI/Fondazione-del-Centenario/Giorgio-Orelli.html |date=4 March 2016 }})

==External links== * {{Helveticat}} * {{HDS|10184|Giorgio Orelli}} * [http://www.giorgioorelli.com Official Website] (Italian)

== Notes == <references/>

== References ==

* Andri Peer, Giorgio Orelli: An Italian Poet from Switzerland, Books Abroad, 1971, p.&nbsp;247-251 * John L. Flood, Modern Swiss Literature: Unity and Diversity, London, 1985 * P.V. Mengaldo, Poeti italiani del Novecento, Mondadori, 2003 * C. Mésoniat, Giorgio Orelli, poeta e critico, Casagrande, 1980 * John Butcher and Mario Moroni (Ed.), From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies, Leicester, 2004 * Luciano Anceschi, Linea lombarda, Magenta, Varese, 1952 * Pietro De Marchi, Dove portano le parole. Sulla poesia di Giorgio Orelli e altro Novecento, Manni, Lecce, 2002

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