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Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics artist. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana, and answered to his critics with the song "

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Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the University of Bologna, where he attended courses with Umberto Eco and Gianni Celati.
In 1980 he made his debut with the collection of generational-themed stories Other Libertines, which achieved good success with critics and the public. The explicit content also earned him the attention of the judicial authorities, followed by a trial at the end of which the author and publisher were exonerated.
After his military experience he published other novels, including Pao Pao and Rimini. He curated the three anthological volumes of the Under 25 series to give voice to a new generation of writers. His latest novel was Separate Rooms, a mournful

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).

He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.

Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa

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Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, born at Torino in 1958. He's the author of several works, including the novels Lands of Glass (Selezione Campiello Award and Prix Médicis Étranger), Ocean Sea (Viareggio Prize), Silk, City, Emmaus or Mr. Gwyn, among others.

He is also the author of the majestic rewrite of Homer’s Iliad, the theatrical monologue Novecento, the essays Next: On Globalization and the World to Come or The Game.

Baricco hosted the book program "Pickwick" for Rai Tre, which, according to Claudio Paglieri, "invited Italians to rediscover the pleasure of reading." In 1994, he founded a school of "writing techniques" in Turin called Holden (as a tribute to Salinger), which, under his direction, has been a resounding success. Si

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and, although he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote novels and stories, many in nautical settings, that depict crises of human individuality in the midst of what he saw as an indifferent, inscrutable, and amoral world.
Conrad is considered a literary impressionist by some and an early modernist by others, though his works also contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters, as in Lord Jim, for example, have influenced numerous authors. Many dramatic fi

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Simone de Beauvoir

Works of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, existentialist, and feminist, include The Second Sex in 1949 and The Coming of Age , a study in 1970 of views of different cultures on the old.

Simone de Beauvoir, an author and philosopher, wrote novels, monographs, political and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. People now best know She Came to Stay and The Mandarins , her metaphysical novels. Her treatise, a foundational contemporary tract, of 1949 detailed analysis of oppression of women.

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Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an Independent.

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Daniele Benati

Daniele Benati, nato a Masone nel 1953, è scrittore e traduttore. Dopo aver insegnato in varie università in Irlanda e negli Stati Uniti, ha collaborato alla rivista «Il semplice» con Gianni Celati ed Ermanno Cavazzoni, dove ha pubblicato racconti e traduzioni.
Sempre con Celati, ha curato Storie di solitari americani (Rizzoli, 2006), dove ha tradotto racconti di Mark Twain, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Delmore Schwartz e Flannery O’Connor. Ha anche tradotto opere di Flann O’Brien (La miseria in bocca; Il boccale traboccante; L’ardua vita, Cronache dublinesi), James Joyce (Gente di Dublino), Ring Lardner (Tagliando i capelli), Tony Cafferky (Storie di identità), e Seumas O’Kelly (La tomba del tessitore) e ha curato l’edizion

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Roberto Bolaño

For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France and Spain. Bolaño moved to Europe in 1977, and finally made his way to Spain, where he married and settled on the Mediterranean coast near Barcelona, working as a dishwasher, a campground custodian, bellhop and garbage collector — working during the day and writing at night.

He continued with his poetry, before shifting to fiction in his early forties. In an interview Bolaño stated that he made this decision because he felt responsible for the future financial well-being of his family, which he knew he could never secure from the earnings of a poet. This was confirmed by Jorge Herralde, who explained that Bolaño "aband

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Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics artist. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Guccini moved to Pàvana during World War II, then returned to Modena where he spent his teenage years and established his musical career. His debut album, Folk beat n. 1, was released in 1967, but the first success was in 1972 with the album Radici. He was harshly criticised after releasing Stanze di vita quotidiana, and answered to his critics with the song "

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Ágota Kristóf

Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.

Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Pier Vittorio Tondelli was born in Correggio in 1955. After graduating from high school he enrolled at the University of Bologna, where he attended courses with Umberto Eco and Gianni Celati.
In 1980 he made his debut with the collection of generational-themed stories Other Libertines, which achieved good success with critics and the public. The explicit content also earned him the attention of the judicial authorities, followed by a trial at the end of which the author and publisher were exonerated.
After his military experience he published other novels, including Pao Pao and Rimini. He curated the three anthological volumes of the Under 25 series to give voice to a new generation of writers. His latest novel was Separate Rooms, a mournful

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Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simpl

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Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.

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Antonio Franchini

Antonio Franchini è nato a Napoli nel 1958. Ha esordito nel 1991 con Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi. Del 1996 è Quando scriviamo da giovani, ripubblicato da Avagliano nel 2003. Con Marsilio ha pubblicato Quando vi ucciderete, maestro? (1996), Acqua, sudore, ghiaccio (1998), L’abusivo (2001), Cronaca della fine (2003), Signore delle lacrime (2010), Memorie di un venditore di libri (2011). Per Mondadori è uscito Gladiatori (2005), per Gallucci il libro per bambini La principessa, la scimmia e l’elefante (2009). Nel 2020 per NNEditore ha pubblicato Il vecchio lottatore. Vive a Milano e lavora nell’editoria.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

People best know French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his fairy tale The Little Prince (1943).

He flew for the first time at the age of 12 years in 1912 at the Ambérieu airfield and then determined to a pilot. Even after moving to a school in Switzerland and spending summer vacations at the château of the family at Saint-Maurice-de-Rémens in east, he kept that ambition. He repeatedly uses the house at Saint-Maurice.

Later, in Paris, he failed the entrance exams for the naval academy and instead enrolled at the prestigious l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1921, Saint-Exupéry, stationed in Strasbourg, began serving in the military. He learned and forever settled his career path as a pilot. After leaving the service in 1923, Sa

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Vitaliano Trevisan

Vitaliano Trevisan (1960–2022) è stato uno scrittore, attore, drammaturgo, regista teatrale, librettista, sceneggiatore e saggista italiano. Dopo una giovinezza trascorsa come impiegato nel settore edilizio e dell'arredamento, si dedica a lavori più manuali fino ad approdare alla letteratura. Dopo alcune prove letterarie di buona levatura, raggiunge il successo nazionale e la notorietà nel 2002 con il romanzo I quindicimila passi, apprezzato dalla critica, che racchiude i pensieri di un uomo, Thomas, dalle mille fobie e dai meccanici comportamenti ossessivo-compulsivi. È morto suicida il 7 gennaio 2022 nella sua casa di Crespadoro all'età di 61 anni.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский (Russian)

Works, such as the novels Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880), of Russian writer Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky or Dostoevski combine religious mysticism with profound psychological insight.

Very influential writings of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin included Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929),

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky composed short stories, essays, and journals. His literature explores humans in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century and engages with a variety of philosophies and themes. People most acclaimed his Demons(1872) .

Many literary critics rate him among the greatest authors of worl

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Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Donatella was born and grew up in Arsita, a small village in the province of Teramo, and now lives in Penne where she practises as a paediatric dentist. From the age of nine she has been writing stories, fables, poems, and now novels. My Mother Is a River is her first novel. It was first published in Italy in 2011, where it won the Tropea and the John Fante literary prizes , and was translated into German in 2013. Her second book, Bella Mia, was published in 2014 and won the Brancati Prize.

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Dario Ferrari

Dario Ferrari (Viareggio, 1982) ha passato il primo trentennio di vita a studiare, fino a diventare dottore di ricerca in Filosofia, un titolo ornamentale che serve quasi esclusivamente a impreziosire le note biografiche. Insegna in un liceo romano ed è traduttore.

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W.G. Sebald

Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. His works are largely concerned with the themes of memory, loss of memory, and identity (both personal and collective) and decay (of civilizations, traditions or physical objects). They are, in particular, attempts to reconcile himself with, and deal in literary terms with, the trauma of the Second World War and its effect on the German people.

At the time of his death at the age of only 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors, and was tipped as a possible future recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Vitaliano Trevisan

Vitaliano Trevisan (1960–2022) è stato uno scrittore, attore, drammaturgo, regista teatrale, librettista, sceneggiatore e saggista italiano. Dopo una giovinezza trascorsa come impiegato nel settore edilizio e dell'arredamento, si dedica a lavori più manuali fino ad approdare alla letteratura. Dopo alcune prove letterarie di buona levatura, raggiunge il successo nazionale e la notorietà nel 2002 con il romanzo I quindicimila passi, apprezzato dalla critica, che racchiude i pensieri di un uomo, Thomas, dalle mille fobie e dai meccanici comportamenti ossessivo-compulsivi. È morto suicida il 7 gennaio 2022 nella sua casa di Crespadoro all'età di 61 anni.

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Daniele Benati

Daniele Benati, nato a Masone nel 1953, è scrittore e traduttore. Dopo aver insegnato in varie università in Irlanda e negli Stati Uniti, ha collaborato alla rivista «Il semplice» con Gianni Celati ed Ermanno Cavazzoni, dove ha pubblicato racconti e traduzioni.
Sempre con Celati, ha curato Storie di solitari americani (Rizzoli, 2006), dove ha tradotto racconti di Mark Twain, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson, Ring Lardner, Delmore Schwartz e Flannery O’Connor. Ha anche tradotto opere di Flann O’Brien (La miseria in bocca; Il boccale traboccante; L’ardua vita, Cronache dublinesi), James Joyce (Gente di Dublino), Ring Lardner (Tagliando i capelli), Tony Cafferky (Storie di identità), e Seumas O’Kelly (La tomba del tessitore) e ha curato l’edizion

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Tommaso Pincio

Tommaso Pincio, pseudonimo di Marco Colapietro, è uno scrittore italiano. Il suo pseudonimo è la traslitterazione italiana del nome dello scrittore postmoderno Thomas Pynchon.

Dopo aver frequentato l'Accademia delle Belle Arti, ha esordito come fumettista, ha diretto per dieci anni una galleria d'arte internazionale e vissuto tra la fine degli '80 e l'inizio dei '90 a New York come assistente di un famoso pittore; è in questo periodo che ha cominciato ad approcciarsi alla scrittura. Ha esordito come romanziere nel 1999 con M.. Successivamente ha pubblicato Lo spazio sfinito (2000) e Un amore dell'altro mondo (2002), un libro che ha diviso la critica letteraria e con il quale l'autore ha acquistato una certa notorietà. Vi si narra la vita di

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Esmahan Aykol

Esmahan Aykol began her writing career as a journalist. Today she is a fiction writer, best known for her "Kati Hirschel" mystery novels.
Aykol's fiction touches upon stereotypes of Turks and Europeans (eg. the character of Kati Hirschel is a reverse of the norm: a German immigrant in Turkey).
Aykol divides her time between Istanbul and Berlin.

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