The Resume

(November 28, 1907-September 26, 1990)
Born in Rome, Italy
Birth name was Alberto Pincherle
Wrote the novels ‘Time of Indifference’ (1929), ‘Wheel of Fortune’ (1935), ‘The Conformist’ (1947), ‘A Ghost at Noon’ (1954), ‘Two Women’ (1957), ‘The Empty Canvas’ (1960), ‘The Lie’ (1965), ‘The Two of Us’ (1972), ‘1934: A Novel’ (1982), and ‘Journey to Rome’ (1988)
Short story collections included ‘Roman Tales’ (1954), ‘More Roman Tales’ (1959), and ‘The Voice of the Sean and Other Stories’ (1976)
President of PEN International (1959-62)
Member of the European Parliament (1984-89)

Why he might be annoying:

He joined the Italian Communist Party.
His second wife was 45 years his junior.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature thirteen times without winning.

Why he might not be annoying:

At age nine, he developed tuberculosis of the bones, which left him bedridden for five years.
He learned English, French and German, and wrote poems in French.
During Mussolini’s regime, several of his novels were banned by the Fascist government.
He won Italy’s most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize (1952).

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• A.M. and P.M.
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 76]
• I am an Atheist
• I Died in 1990 (Ranked: 82)
• I Have Tuberculosis
• I Sought Political Office
• I was Home Schooled
• I Write Bildungsroman
• I'm a Communist
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 48)
• Look at Me and My Pet
• My Book is on the Catholic Index of Forbidden Books
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• Profiles 46751-47000 (Ranked: 46973)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 168 Votes: 60.12% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 85 Votes: 54.12% Annoying