Umberto Eco

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Aliases:
U. Eko, إيكو، أومبرتو،, Umberto Ėko, and 49 others Oumperto Eko, ウンベルト エーコ, Umberto Èko, Ūmbirtū Īkū, اکو، اومبرتو, Umberto Eco, Ουμπέρτο Έκο, أمبرتو إكو،, Umbirtū Iykū, اومبرتو اکو, إيكو، أمبرتو،, Humbertus Eco, ウンベルト エコ, Umberto Eko, Умберта Эка, ウンベルト・エーコ, Anbotuo Aike, 安伯托 艾可, אומברטו אקו, ഉംബർട്ടോ എക്കോ, Umbirtū Īkū, Umbertu Ecu, Ūmbirtū Iīkū, Ումբերտո Էկո, 翁贝托·埃可, Oumperto 2- Eko, 움베르토에코, Dedalus, Humberto Eco, Умберто Эко, Умбэрта Эка, اكو، أمبيرتو, أمبرتو إيكو،, إكو، أمبيرتو،, უმბერტო ეკო, إيكو، أمبرطو،, U エーコ, Умберто Еко, أومبرتو إكو, อุมแบร์โต เอโก, Umberts Ekos, Eco, உம்பெர்த்தோ எக்கோ, اومبئرتو ائکو, ཨུམ་བེར་ཏོ་ཨེ་ཀོ།, У Эко, ਉਮਬੇਰਤੋ ਈਕੋ, U. Eco, Эко
Born:
Jan. 5, 1932
Died:
Feb. 19, 2016

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Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian novelist, literary critic, philosopher, semiotician, and university professor. He is widely known for his 1980 novel Il nome della rosa (The Name of the Rose), a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory. He later wrote other novels, including Il pendolo di Foucault (Foucault's Pendulum) and L'isola del giorno prima (The Island of the Day Before). His novel Il cimitero di Praga (The Prague Cemetery), released in 2010, topped the bestseller charts in Italy.

Eco also wrote academic texts, children's books, and essays, and edited and translated into Italian books from French, such as Raymond Queneau’s “Exercises in Style” (1983). He was the founder of the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Republic of San Marino,[3] president of the Graduate School for the Study of the Humanities at the University of Bologna, member of the Accademia dei Lincei, and an honorary fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Books by Umberto Eco