Fulvio Tomizza (26 January 1935 – 21 May 1999) was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani di Materada in Istria, to a middle-class family of ancient southern Dalmatian origins (his ancestor's name was Jure Jurcan [Zorzi Giurizzano], and came there in the 16th century in order to escape from the Ottoman invasion; southern Dalmatia and Istria were at the time both under the rule of the Republic of Venice; Venice was interested in the migration: Istria at the time was indeed underpopulated because of an epidemic). Tomizza grew up in a zone where the dialect was mixed (Venetian mixed with Slavic words or Slavic mixed with Venetian words).
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26 January 1935 Giurizzani, Italy (now Croatia
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Died |
26 May 1999 (aged 64) Trieste, Italy
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Zodiac | Aquarius |
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