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Alessandro Spina is an Italian-Libyan novelist and poet. He was born in Benghazi, Libya in 1927. He is best known for his novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1971. Spina studied at the University of Rome and the University of Padua, where he earned a degree in philosophy. He then moved to Libya, where he taught at the University of Benghazi. Spina's first novel, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, was published in 1962. The novel tells the story of a Jewish family living in Ferrara, Italy, during the rise of fascism. The novel was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film in 1971. Spina has also written several other novels, including The Last Jew of Benghazi (1966), The Last Days of the Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), and The Return of the Finzi-Continis (1974). He has also written several collections of poetry, including The Poetry of the Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1966) and The Poetry of the Return of the Finzi-Continis (1974). Spina currently lives in Rome, Italy. He is 86 years old.

Popular As Basili Shafik Khouzam
Occupation Novelist, Business man
Age 86 years old
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Born 1927, 1927
Birthday 1927
Birthplace Benghazi, Libya
Date of death 2013
Died Place N/A
Nationality Libya

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2013

I confini dell'ombra is currently being translated into English by André Naffis-Sahely as The Confines of the Shadow. Volume 1 of 3 is available from DARF Publishers. Spina has also been translated into French. The first three novels of The Confines of the Shadow were translated by Gérard Genot as Triptyque Libyen (L'Âge d'Homme, 2013), while one of his short stories appeared in a translation by Michel Balzamo as Juin 1940 (Éditions de L'Herne, 2009).

1927

Alessandro Spina (1927–2013) was the pen name of Basili Shafik Khouzam. Born in Benghazi into a family of Syrian Maronites that originally hailed from Aleppo, Syria, Khouzam was educated in Milan and published his first story in Nuovi Argomenti. Following his return to Benghazi in 1954, Khouzam spent the next twenty-five years managing his father's textile factory in Benghazi while continuing to write in his spare time. Khouzam eventually left Libya in 1979 and retired to Franciacorta, Italy. Khouzam was associated with various leading Italian writers of his time, including Alberto Moravia, Giorgio Bassani, Vittorio Sereni, and Claudio Magris and his novels were published by various imprints such as Mondadori and Garzanti. His major opus was I confini dell'ombra, a sequence of eleven historical novels and short story collections that chart the history of his native city from the Italo-Turkish War in 1911 to the exploitation of Libya's vast oil reserves in 1964. Although Khouzam individually published each instalment of his epic throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the entire sequence was finally issued as a 1268-page omnibus edition by Morcelliana in 2006 and was then awarded the Bagutta Prize in 2007. His work has been compared to that of Paul Bowles and Albert Cossery

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