Umberto Eco

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Umberto Eco was an Italian novelist, philosopher, semiotician, and scholar best known for his erudite historical mystery "The Name of the Rose."

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academicDegree PhD in philosophy
awardReceived Légion d'honneur
Premio Bancarella
Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities
Strega Prize
burialPlace Monumental Cemetery of Milan
causeOfDeath pancreatic cancer
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1932-01-05
dateOfDeath 2016-02-19
educatedAt University of Turin
employer University of Bologna
familyName Eco
fieldOfWork aesthetics
literary theory
media studies
medieval studies
philosophy
semiotics
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genre historical novel
mystery fiction
philosophical fiction
givenName Umberto
hasInfluenced contemporary semiotics
postmodern literature
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
movement postmodernism
structuralism
nativeLanguage Italian
notableIdea interpretive cooperation of the reader
model reader
notableWork A Theory of Semiotics
Baudolino
Foucault's Pendulum
How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays
Kant and the Platypus
Numero Zero
On Beauty
On Ugliness
The Island of the Day Before
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
The Name of the Rose (novel)
surface form: The Name of the Rose

The Open Work
The Prague Cemetery
Travels in Hyperreality
occupation essayist
novelist
philosopher
semiotician
university professor
placeOfBirth Alessandria
surface form: Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy
placeOfDeath Milan
surface form: Milan, Italy
positionHeld Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna
religion Roman Catholicism

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Erasmus Prize notableLaureate Umberto Eco
Roland Barthes influenced Umberto Eco
Herder Prize notableRecipient Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose (novel) author Umberto Eco
subject surface form: The Name of the Rose
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Foucault's Pendulum author Umberto Eco
Baudolino author Umberto Eco
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The Prague Cemetery author Umberto Eco
Numero Zero author Umberto Eco
On Ugliness author Umberto Eco
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On Beauty author Umberto Eco
The Open Work author Umberto Eco
A Theory of Semiotics author Umberto Eco
Travels in Hyperreality author Umberto Eco
Kant and the Platypus author Umberto Eco
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subject surface form: The Name of the Rose (novel)