Italo Svevo

Italo Svevo
Portrait of Italo Svevo
Born
Aron Hector Schmitz

(1861-12-19)19 December 1861
Trieste, Austrian Empire (present-day Italy)
Died13 September 1928(1928-09-13) (aged 66)
Motta di Livenza, Italy
OccupationsNovelist, short story writer, playwright, businessman
Notable workLa coscienza di Zeno
SpouseLivia Veneziani

Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (Italian: [ˈiːtalo ˈzvɛːvo]), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian 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 modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), which became a widely appreciated classic of Italian literature. He was also the cousin of the Italian academic Steno Tedeschi.

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