realities, between the misery of everyday life and another strange and marvellous world. Racconto d'Autunno (1947) is his best known work outside Italy. Its story is, in more ways than one, a metaphor for an end to the old and the beginning of the new. While ghosts, terror and war dominate the landscape, and a gothic horror story is the main plot, there is nonetheless a sense that this book is a lamentation on an epoch that came to a violent end during World War II. Cancroregina (1950) is a strange science-fiction story, in the form of a diary written by a man who is stuck in orbit in outer space and cannot return to earth. A caso, a collection of short stories, won him the Strega Prize in 1975. In 1996 his daughter Idolina founded the Centro Studi Landolfiani. Selected works Dialogo dei massimi sistemi (1937) La pietra lunare (1939) II mar delle blatte e altre storie (1939) Racconto d'autunno, trans. Joachim Neugroschel (An Autumn Story, Eridanos Press, 1989) Cancroregina, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (Cancerqueen The Dial Press, 1971) Le due zittelle (1952) La bière du pêcheur (1953) Ombre (1954) Rien va (1963) Mano rubata (1964) Des mois (1967) A caso (1975) There have been three collections of his short stories in English translation: Gogol’s Wife and Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal et al. (New Directions, 1963); Cancerqueen and Other Stories, trans. Raymond Rosenthal (Dial Press, 1971); and Words in Commotion and Other Stories, Intro. Italo Calvino, trans. Kathrine Jason (Viking, 1986). The majority of his work is in print, published by Adelphi under the editorship of Landolfi's daughter. References Further reading Bibliographical notes to T. Landolfi, Opere I, (1937–1959) and Opere II, (1960–1971) (Milan: Adelphi, 1994) Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, (London: Cassell, 1996) p. 309-10 Ann Hallamore Caesar and Michael Caesar, Modern Italian Literature (Cambridge: Polity, 2007) Alberto Asor Rosa, Storia della letterature italiana (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1985) 1908 births 1979 deaths 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian translators Italian atheists Italian fantasy writers Italian horror writers Italian science fiction writers Italian male short story writers People from the Province of Frosinone Strega Prize winners Italian male novelists 20th-century Italian short story writers