Eugenio Barisoni

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games
SexMale
Full nameEugenio•Barisoni
Used nameEugenio•Barisoni
Born8 July 1886 in Novara, Novara (ITA)
Died31 March 1951 (aged 64 years 8 months 23 days) in Sanremo, Imperia (ITA)
NOC Italy

Biography

Italian writer Eugenio Barisoni was an avid fisherman, hunter and nature lover, whose novels frequently featured these issues. He became a writer at 46 with a successful book Hunter is Born. Having become a successful author and writer of prestigious magazine articles, Barisoni obtained the St. Vincent Prize a few years before his death in San Remo in 1951. In Italy he was called the “Hemingway of Ticino”. Cacciatore si Nasce contains a series of hunting stories and first appeared in Milano in 1932. It has been reissued ever since.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal As
1936 Summer Olympics Art Competitions ITA Eugenio Barisoni
Literature, Epic Works, Open (Olympic) AC