Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Antonio Tabucchi
Born: September 24, 1943
Died: March 25, 2012 (aged 68)
Bio: Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy.
Known for:
- Pereira Maintains (1994)
- Indian Nocturne (1984)
- Requiem: A Hallucination (1991)
- The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro (1997)
- Tristano Dies: A Life (2004)