Dino Buzzati

Dino Buzzati (1906-1972) was born in San Pellegrino di Belluno in northern Italy, near the Dolomite mountains whose stark landscapes would haunt his fiction. He joined the staff of the Milanese newspaper Corriere della Sera in 1928 and remained there for the rest of his life, working as a journalist, war correspondent, and editor while simultaneously producing novels, short stories, plays, opera librettos, and paintings. The Tartar Steppe, published in 1940, drew on his own experience of monotonous military service and established his international reputation. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Tartar Steppe.