Italo Svevo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Italo Svevo

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1861

Place of Birth: Trieste, Friuli–Venezia Giulia

Date of Death: 13-Sep-1928

Profession: writer, businessperson, playwright, translator, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Aron Ettore Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: ['i?talo 'zv??vo]), was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.