Writer, born in Asiago, Veneto, NE Italy. In 1938 he enlisted in the Italian Alpine troops and took part in the Russian campaign, his war experiences later becoming the main theme of his work. He sprang to fame with Il sergente nella neve. Ricordi della ritirata di Russia (1953). Other works include Ritorno sul Don (1973), L'anno della vittoria (1985), and Le stagioni di Giacomo (1995), and a collection of short stories Il bosco degli urogalli (1962).
Mario Rigoni Stern (b.
His first novel The Sergeant in the Snow ("Il sergente nella neve"), published in 1953, tells his story as a sergeant in the Alpini corp during the disastrous retrait from Russia in the World War II.
His best known works also include Giacomo's Seasons and Stories of Tönle.
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