Alessandro Leogrande

Alessandro Leogrande was an Italian journalist. He made his debut in long form journalism with Un Mare Nascosto (A Hidden Sea 1999), dedicated to his hometown, and in later books he went on investigating the new mafias, protest movements, and the exploitation of foreign agricultural laborers in Southern Italy. He then explored the topic of migration from Africa and the Balkans in his books Il naufragio. Morte nel Mediterraneo (Death in the Mediterranean 2011), Adriatico (Adriatic 2011), La frontiera (The border 2015), and wrote the libretto of two operas: Katër i Radës (2014) on the Tragedy of Otranto, and Haye, Le parole, la notte (2017), a musical voyage in contemporary migrations.

Leogrande died in Rome at the age of 40 from a heart attac

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Scrive da sempre, ma l’idea di pubblicare le sue storie era sempre rimasta un sogno nel cassetto. Nel 2023 ha deciso che era tempo di aprire quel cassetto.
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