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Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals in many fields of visual arts (paint, sculpture, film, industrial design, graphics) and non visual arts (literature, poetry, didactic) with the research on the game subject, infancy and creativity.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May Alcott and Amos Bronson Alcott, she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Alcott's family suffered from financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes

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Vasily Grossman

Born Iosif Solomonovich Grossman into an emancipated Jewish family, he did not receive a traditional Jewish education. A Russian nanny turned his name Yossya into Russian Vasya (a diminutive of Vasily), which was accepted by the whole family. His father had social-democratic convictions and joined the Mensheviks. Young Vasily Grossman idealistically supported the Russian Revolution of 1917.

When the Great Patriotic War broke out in 1941, Grossman's mother was trapped in Berdychiv by the invading German army, and eventually murdered together with 20,000 to 30,000 other Jews who did not evacuate Berdychiv. Grossman was exempt from military service, but volunteered for the front, where he spent more than 1,000 days. He became a war reporter for

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Raymond Radiguet

Raymond Radiguet was born in Saint-Maur, Val-de-Marne close to Paris, the son of a caricaturist. In 1917 he moved to the city. Soon he would drop out of the Lycée Charlemagne, where he studied, in order to pursue his interests in journalism and literature. He associated himself with the Modernist set, befriending Picasso, Max Jacob, Jean Hugo, Juan Gris, and especially Jean Cocteau, who became his mentor. Radiguet also had several well-documented relationships with women. An anecdote told by Ernest Hemingway has an enraged Cocteau charging Radiguet (known in the Parisian literary circles as "Monsieur Bébé" – Mister Baby) with decadence for his tryst with a model: "Bébé est vicieuse. Il aime les femmes." ("Baby is depraved. He likes women."

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Elias Canetti

Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power."

He studied in Vienna. Before World War II he moved with his wife Veza to England and stayed there for long time. Since late 1960s he lived in London and Zurich. In late 1980s he started to live in Zurich permanently. He died in 1994 in Zurich.

Author of Auto-da-Fé, Party in the Blitz, Crowds and Power, and The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

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Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature ("for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity.")

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Rick Moody

Hiram Frederick Moody III is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought him widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into the film The Ice Storm. Many of his works have been praised by fellow writers and critics alike.

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Lalla Romano

(Demonte, Cuneo, 1906 - Milano, 2001)
Dopo aver frequentato le elementari a Demonte, si trasferisce a Cuneo con la famiglia nel 1916, dove compie gli studi superiori. Conseguita la maturità nel ‘24, s’iscrive alla facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università di Torino: tra i suoi professori, spiccano le figure di Ferdinando Neri e Lionello Venturi. Su indicazione di quest’ultimo, comincia a frequentare la scuola di pittura di Felice Casorati. Laureatasi nel 1928, continua a dedicarsi alla pittura ed alla poesia: ha, intanto, conosciuto scrittori e intellettuali del calibro di Cesare Pavese, Mario Soldati, Franco Antonicelli, Arnaldo Momigliano. Nel ‘32 sposa, a Cuneo, Innocenzo Monti, e nel ‘33 nasce il suo unico figlio, Pietro. Nel ‘35 ra

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Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born into a colonial family. both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.

In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she fear

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Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen has written essays for The New Yorker, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, Apollo, The New York Times, The Nation, The Threepenny Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s and other publications, and her essays have been anthologized in Best American Essays and in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her third book, Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels was published by FSG in July 2020 to critical acclaim. Austen Years is a meditation on reading, having children, the death of her father, five novels by Jane Austen, and reading again in times of isolation and transformation.

Cohen's first book, A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, (Random House, 2004) is a series of thirty-six linked essays about the encou

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Tama Janowitz

Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis, Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney.

Born in San Francisco, California to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East Coast of the United States to attend Barnard College and the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down.

She socialized with Andy Warhol and became well-known in New York's literary and social circles. Her 1986 collection of short stories, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York

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Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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Zack McDermott

I was born in Wichita, KS and went to the University of Kansas for undergrad. I studied political science and African-American studies -- that was my favorite. I went to UVA Law and then became a public defender in Brooklyn in 2008.

As soon as I moved to New York I started doing stand up comedy. My "career" was derailed by my first psychotic break and a trip to the psych ward. My book takes it from there.

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I've contributed to This American Life, New York Times, Gawker, Deadspin, Morning Edition, SplitSider among others.

Find my email and message me if you feel like it -- I try to respond to everyone.

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Michael Frank

Michael Frank’s essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, The Yale Review, Salmagundi, The TLS, and Tablet, among other publications. His fiction has been presented at Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and his travel writing has been collected in Italy: The Best Travel Writing from The New York Times. He served as a Contributing Writer to the Los Angeles Times Book Review for nearly ten years. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.

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Giulia Caminito

Giulia Caminito è nata a Roma nel 1988 e si è laureata in Filosofia politica. Ha esordito con il romanzo La Grande A (Giunti 2016, Premio Bagutta opera prima, Premio Berto e Premio Brancati giovani), seguito nel 2019 da Un giorno verrà (Bompiani, Premio Fiesole Under 40).

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Bianca Pitzorno

Bianca Pitzorno (Sassari, 1942) è una scrittrice, autrice televisiva e traduttrice italiana. Celebre soprattutto come autrice di romanzi per ragazzi, dal 2000 è anche ambasciatrice UNICEF.

Born in 1942, she's an Italian writer and screenwriter specialized in children literature.

She graduated in Classic Literature, with a thesis on Prehistoric Archeology. For seven years she worked as a responsible for cultural children’s television programmes for the Italian public television (RAI). She also worked as an archeologist, theatre writer, screenwriter, lyricist and teacher.

From 1970 to 2011 she published many assays and novels, for both kids and adults, translated in many countries all over Europe, America and Asia. She translated Tolkien, Sylvia

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Maria Gripe

Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter (25 July 1923, Vaxholm, Uppland – 5 April 2007, Rönninge), was a Swedish author of books for children and young people, often written in a magical and mystical tone. In 1946 she married the artist Harald Gripe, who created cover illustrations for most of her books. His illustration career, in fact, began in connection with his wife's debut as author of I vår lilla stad ("In our little town"). Maria Gripe's first major success was Josephine (1961), the first of a series of novels that later included Hugo and Josephine and Hugo. During most of her adult life Maria Gripe lived in Nyköping, where an adaptation of her book Agnes Cecilia was filmed. After a long period of dementia Maria Gripe died at 83 in a nu

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Pierre Boileau

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French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac.

In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures, for Le Repos de Bacchus . It is given to the author of the best example of detective fiction in the world each year.

He met Narcejac in 1948 at the awards dinner when Narcejac received the same award for one of his novels.

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Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth, journalist and novelist, was born and grew up in Brody, a small town near Lemberg in East Galicia, part of the easternmost reaches of what was then the Austro-Hungarian empire and is now Ukraine. Roth was born into a Jewish family. He died in Paris after living there in exile.

http://www.josephroth.de/

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Federigo Tozzi

Federigo Tozzi was the son of an innkeeper. He first worked as a railway official, then took over running his father's inn. In 1911 he published his first book of poetry. In 1913 he began to work on his first novel, Con gli occhi chiusi ("With closed eyes"), a highly autobiographical text. In this year, he also founded the magazine La Torre. Tozzi then became a journalist in Rome. Through his literary activity, he caught the attention of the writer Luigi Pirandello, who subsequently supported him. Tozzi died 1920 in Rome of influenza and pneumonia.

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Alba de Céspedes

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini was a Cuban-Italian writer.

Ms. de Céspedes was the daughter of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada (a President of Cuba) and his Italian wife, Laura Bertini y Alessandri. Her grandfather was Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and a distant cousin was Perucho Figueredo. She was married to Francesco Bounous of the Italian foreign service

Ms. de Céspedes worked as a journalist in the 1930s for Piccolo, Epoca, and La Stampa. In 1935, she wrote her first novel, L’Anima Degli Altri. In 1935, she was jailed for her anti-fascist activities in Italy. Two of her novels were also banned (Nessuno Torna Indietro (1938) and La Fuga (1940)). In 1943, she was again imprisoned for her assistance with Radio Partigiana in Bari. After the war

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Marina Pierri

Half from Bari and half from Salento (thus 100% Pugliese, as she likes to say), Marina Pierri is a fan of weird science and fantastic fiction, fairy tales and happy endings. She is deeply fond of semiotics and story structure, which she also teaches. Marina has published three essays including her debut Eroine, focused on her theory of The Heroine’s Journey, a podcast called Soglie, and her first novel Gotico salentino. A reader, a watcher and a gamer, she currently lives in Milan and is working on her second novel.

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Laura Pugno

Per diversi anni ha lavorato nelle redazioni di case editrici, riviste e siti web, soprattutto di cinema. È stata lettrice di sceneggiature, e consulente per la Rai.Ha tradotto più di una decina tra saggi e romanzi dall’inglese e dal francese e insegnato traduzione all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
Collabora con le pagine culturali del «Manifesto» e con la Cronaca di Roma di «Repubblica».
Nel 2001 ha raccolto le sue poesie, con alcune prose di Giulio Mozzi, in Tennis, Nuova Magenta Editrice. Il suo primo libro di racconti, Sleepwalking, è uscito nel 2002 per Sironi editore. Nel 2005 è stata finalista al premio di poesia Antonio Delfini e ha vinto il premio Scrivere Cinema all'Autumn Film Festival.
Ad aprile 2007 pubblica il poemetto Il col

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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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Andrea Bajani

Scrittore e giornalista italiano. Autore di romanzi e racconti, ma anche di reportage, opere teatrali e traduzioni di opere dal francese e dall'inglese. Nel 2002 pubblica il suo primo romanzo, Morto un Papa.
Nel 2008 vince il Premio Super Mondello, il Premio Recanati e il Premio Brancati con il romanzo Se consideri le colpe .
Nel 2011 vince il Premio Bagutta con il romanzo Ogni promessa.

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Goliarda Sapienza

Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian actress and writer. Goliarda Sapienza was born 10 May 1924 in Catania. Her mother was Maria Guidice, a prominent socialist, her father Peppino Sapienza, a socialist lawyer. As a child, Goliarda Sapienza reenacted films she had seen in cinema. In 1941 she and her mother went to Rome, where she studied theatre. She worked as an actor in both films and plays, but from 1958 she focused on writing. Her now famous novel L’arte della gioia (The Art of Joy) was finished in 1976 but rejected by publishers because of its length (over 700 pages) and its portrayal of a woman unrestrained by conventional morality and traditional feminine roles. It was first published by her husband Angelo Pellegrino after her death.

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Federigo Tozzi

Federigo Tozzi was the son of an innkeeper. He first worked as a railway official, then took over running his father's inn. In 1911 he published his first book of poetry. In 1913 he began to work on his first novel, Con gli occhi chiusi ("With closed eyes"), a highly autobiographical text. In this year, he also founded the magazine La Torre. Tozzi then became a journalist in Rome. Through his literary activity, he caught the attention of the writer Luigi Pirandello, who subsequently supported him. Tozzi died 1920 in Rome of influenza and pneumonia.

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Massimo Bontempelli

Massimo Bontempelli was an Italian novelist, short story and theater writer, literary and art theorist and critic.

Best known for coining the literary term Magical Realism and creating its theoretical framework. His efforts to implement this specific poetics in his writings begin after his initial experiments, first with traditional poetry (Carduccian classicism) , then humorist, ironic stories (influenced by Pirandello) and short escapades in surrealism and futurism.
Despite forming a literary model for Magic Realism with his own novels and short stories, Bontempelli's importance as a Magic Realist writer is mainly neglected and overthrown in contemporary theories on Magic Realism. Only few authors (mostly Italian authors but A. C. Hegerfe

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Ignazio Silone

Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 partecipa a Livorno alla fondazione del Partito Comunista (che rappresenta a Mosca, con Togliatti, nel Komintern), ma se ne stacca nel 1930, in disaccordo con le purghe staliniane. Antifascista, resta in esilio in Svizzera dal 1930 al 1945, anni durante i quali matura la sua vocazione di scrittore. Pubblicato in traduzione tedesca a Zurigo nel 1933, “Fontamara” è il suo romanzo d’esordio, che lo impone a

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Elsa Morante

Elsa Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina).
She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza, Sandro Penna, Attilio Bertolucci, Umberto Saba and many others.

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Taichi Yamada

Taichi Yamada was one of the most famous and highly respected writers in Japan. Winner of many awards for literary excellence from private organizations and from the Japanese government, he is best known for his scripts for TV dramas, but has also written many novels and plays. He was born in Tokyo in 1934, and graduated from Waseda University in 1958 after having studied Japanese Language and Literature in the Department of Education. That same year he entered the Shochiku Film Company and began to work at the Ofuna Studio Production Department. In 1965, he left Shochiku and established himself as an independent scenario writer.

Japanese profile : 山田太一

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Giorgio Bassani

Giorgio Bassani was born in Bologna into a prosperous Jewish family of Ferrara, where he spent his childhood with his mother Dora, father Enrico (a doctor), brother Paolo, and sister Jenny. In 1934 he completed his studies at his secondary school, the liceo classico L. Ariosto in Ferrara. Music had been his first great passion and he considered a career as a pianist; however literature soon became the focus of his artistic interests.
In 1935 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bologna. Commuting to lectures by train from Ferrara, he studied under the art historian Roberto Longhi. His ideal of the “free intellectual” was the Liberal historian and philosopher Benedetto Croce. Despite the anti-Semitic race laws which were

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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".

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Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello; Agrigento (28 June 1867 – Rome 10 December 1936) was an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet, and short story writer whose greatest contributions were his plays.

He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art"

Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written in Sicilian. Pirandello's tragic farces are often seen as forerunners of the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Peter Handke

Peter Handke (* 6. Dezember 1942 in Griffen, Kärnten) ist ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.

Peter Handke is an Avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. His body of work has been awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019. He has also collaborated with German director Wim Wenders, writing the script for The Wrong Move and co-writing the screenplay for Wings of Desire.

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Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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Renate Rasp

Renate Rasp was the daughter of German actor Fritz Rasp. After attending a high school (Gymnasium) in Berlin, she began studying acting in 1954. She then studied painting for at the Berlin University of the Arts and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. She worked as a commercial graphic artist and started writing in 1965.

She gained attention in 1967 at the last meeting of the so-called Gruppe 47 with her irreverent and provocative poems; in 1968, she caused a stir again at the Frankfurt Book Fair by giving her reading topless. Her debut novel, Ein ungeratener Sohn—a "pitch-black parable" about "educational torture"—was generally well received by critics. However, her subsequent publications, which often dealt with sadistic and masoch

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Jianwei Xun

Jianwei Xun emerged in late 2024 as a distributed philosophical entity born from the collaborative interaction between human intelligence and artificial intelligence systems. Initially introduced to the world as a Hong Kong-born philosopher based in Berlin, Xun's true nature as a hybrid intellectual construct was revealed in spring 2025, transforming what began as a meta-narrative experiment into a genuine philosophical event.

Xun was created through an experimental collaboration between Italian philosopher Andrea Colamedici and advanced language models, as part of a research project on narrative construction and reality manipulation in the digital age. Rather than a simple pseudonym or fictional character, Xun represents a new form of distr

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Franco Nembrini

Franco Nembrini is dedicated to furthering the education of youth, and has been constantly involved in educational initiatives. He helped found a private school in Calcinate and has served in various advisory capacities on educational commissions, particularly those serving Catholic schools. He has been a member of the Vatican Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life since October 2018.

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Maxence Fermine

Ecrivain ayant vécu entre Paris et l'Afrique, Maxence Fermine est l'auteur de plusieurs romans et recueils de nouvelles. En 1999, il se lance en publiant 'Neige' qui est une agréable surprise. Fort de ce premier succès, l'auteur se consacre pleinement à l'écriture. Toujours en 1999, il dévoile son deuxième roman, 'Le Violon noir'. En 2000, il écrit 'L' Apiculteur' qui reçoit le Prix del Duca et le Prix Murat en 2001. La même année, il co-écrit 'Sagesses et malices de Confucius le roi sans royaume' avec Olivier Besson. Véritable bourreau de travail, il enchaîne avec 'Opium' en 2002, 'Billard blues', 'Jazz blanc' et 'Poker' en 2003. En 2004, il décroche le Prix Europe 1 grâce au roman 'Amazone'. S'en suit les romans 'Tango Massaï' en 2005 et

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Ignazio Silone

Figlio di una tessitrice e di un piccolo proprietario terriero, perde assai presto il padre e la madre, nel terremoto che nel gennaio del ‘15 distrugge gran parte della Marsica. Interrotti gli studi liceali, si dà alla politica quale socialista attivo e prende parte alle lotte contro la guerra e al movimento operaio rivoluzionario; nel 1921 partecipa a Livorno alla fondazione del Partito Comunista (che rappresenta a Mosca, con Togliatti, nel Komintern), ma se ne stacca nel 1930, in disaccordo con le purghe staliniane. Antifascista, resta in esilio in Svizzera dal 1930 al 1945, anni durante i quali matura la sua vocazione di scrittore. Pubblicato in traduzione tedesca a Zurigo nel 1933, “Fontamara” è il suo romanzo d’esordio, che lo impone a

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David Leavitt

Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University and a professor at the University of Florida, where he is the co-director of the creative writing program. He is also the editor of Subtropics magazine, The University of Florida's literary review.

Leavitt, who is openly gay, has frequently explored gay issues in his work. He divides his time between Florida and Tuscany, Italy.

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Alessandro Barbaglia

LE biografie mi imbarazzano. Cioè, se sei Napoleone a trent’anni la puoi scrivere una biografia, perché no… se sei Gesù a trentatré anni puoi raccontarne di miracoli fatti… ma se sei Alessandro Barbaglia - e sfido chiunque ad essere Alessandro Barbaglia, è l’unica sfida che mi sento di vincere - che puoi aver fatto a 38 anni? (Santo cielo! Trentotto! Non ne ho mai avuti così tanti!) Comunque, eccola:

Alessandro Barbaglia nasce. Il che: gli cambia la vita.
Lo fa il 30 agosto 1980. Lo aspettavano il 21. Il 26 erano tutti pronti, lui ha deciso di fare 30. Far subito 31 gli sembrava di cattivo gusto.
Nonostante si ostini a dire pubblicamente di essere nato a Nizza per via di quella sua nonna francese (lei si, nata lì) è nato a Borgomanero e su

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Martha Cooley

Martha Cooley lives in Forest Hills, Queens (New York City) and Castiglione del Terziere, Italy--a tiny medieval village populated mainly by cats. A Professor of English at Adelphi University, she formerly taught in the Bennington Writing Seminars, and she leads workshops in creative writing in Tuscany. With her husband Antonio Romani, she translates fiction and poetry from Italian.

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Fausta Cialente

Fausta Terni Cialente was an Italian novelist, journalist and political activist. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize.

Cialente's first novel Natalia, completed in 1927, treated the lesbian relationship of an unhappily married woman. It was published in Rome in 1930 and won the Dieci Savi Prize. When the initial print run of 3000 copies had been sold, her publisher wanted to print more copies but the censors in the Fascist regime asked for two sections of the book to be revised. Cialente refused and the book was not reprinted but in 1932 a French translation was published in France. In 1930 her short story "Marianna" was published in the literary magazine L'Italia Letteraria which was edited by Giambattista Angioletti. From 1940 she wrote

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Anna Maria Ortese

Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier's family often short on money. Like many poor girls of her generation, Ortese left school at age thirteen, initially with the idea of studying (and then, teaching) music in mind; until the discovery of literary romanticism, particularly the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Katherine Mansfield, and her need for creative self-expression made her turn to writing.

She eventually studied with Massimo Bontempelli, proponent of the "magical realism" she herself would soon make her own as well, and in 1937 published her first collection of short stories, entitled "Angelici Dolori." Her work garnered her

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Marti Olsen Laney

Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D., is a researcher, educator, author, and psychotherapist. One of America’s foremost authorities on introversion, she speaks and leads workshops on the topic in the United States and Canada.

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Igiaba Scego

Igiaba Scego is an Italian writer, journalist, and activist of Somali origin. She graduated with her BA in Foreign Literature at the First University of Rome (La Sapienza) as well as in pedagogy at the Third University of Rome. Presently, she is writing and researching cultural dialogue and migration.

She writes for various magazines that deal with migrant literature, in particular Carta, El-Ghibli and Migra. Her work, not devoid of autobiographical references, are characterized by the delicate balance between her two cultural realities, the Italian and Somalian.

In 2003, she won the Eks & Tra prize for migrant writers with her story "Salsicce", and published her debut novel, La nomade che amava Alfred Hitchcock. In 2006 she attended the Lite

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Fred Uhlman

Fred Uhlman was a German-English writer, painter and lawyer of Jewish origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Uhlman

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Beppe Fenoglio

Beppe Fenoglio (born Giuseppe Fenoglio) was an Italian writer. His work was published in a critical edition after his death, but controversy remains about his book Johnny the Partisan, often considered his best work, which was published posthumously and incomplete in 1968.
The works of Fenoglio have two main themes: the rural world of the Langhe and the partisan war; equally, the writer has two styles: the chronicle and the epos. His first work was in the neorealist style: La paga del sabato (this was published posthumously too in 1969).
The novel was turned down by Elio Vittorini who advised Fenoglio to carve out stories and then incorporate them into the The twenty-three days of the city of Alba (1952). These stories were a chronicle of the

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty. His plays offered his contemporaries images of themselves, often dramatizing the lives, values, and conflicts of the emerging middle classes. Though he wrote in French and Italian, his plays make rich use of the Venetian language, regional vernacular, and colloquialisms. Goldoni also wrote under the pen name and title "Polisseno Fegeio, Pastor Arcade," which he claimed in his memoirs the "Arcadians of Rome" bestowed on him.

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Renata Viganò

Renata Viganò (1900–1976) was an Italian writer best known for her neo-realist novel L'Agnese va a morire, published in 1949. Viganò was an active participant in the Italian Resistance movement during World War II and featured fictionalized accounts of her experiences as a partisan in her written work.

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Sayaka Murata

Sayaka Murata (in Japanese, 村田沙耶香) is one of the most exciting up-and-coming writers in Japan today.
She herself still works part time in a convenience store, which gave her the inspiration to write Convenience Store Woman (Konbini Ningen). She debuted in 2003 with Junyu (Breastfeeding), which won the Gunzo Prize for new writers. In 2009 she won the Noma Prize for New Writers with Gin iro no uta (Silver Song), and in 2013 the Mishima Yukio Prize for Shiro-oro no machi no, sono hone no taion no (Of Bones, of Body Heat, of Whitening City). Convenience Store Woman won the 2016 Akutagawa Award. Murata has two short stories published in English (both translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori): "Lover on the Breeze" (Ruptured Fiction(s) of the Earthqu

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Fuani Marino

Fuani Marino è nata a Napoli nel 1980. Dopo gli studi in psicologia, è diventata giornalista collaborando a lungo con il «Corriere del Mezzogiorno ». Nel 2017 ha pubblicato il romanzo Il panorama alle spalle (Scatole Parlanti). Suoi articoli e racconti sono usciti su «Rivista Studio», «il Tascabile» e altre riviste. Per Einaudi ha pubblicato Svegliami a mezzanotte (2019).

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Amélie Nothomb

Amélie Nothomb, born Fabienne Claire Nothomb, was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 9 July 1966, to Belgian diplomats. Although Nothomb claims to have been born in Japan, she actually began living in Japan at the age of two until she was five years old. Subsequently, she lived in China, New York, Bangladesh, Burma, the United Kingdom (Coventry) and Laos.
She is from a distinguished Belgian political family; she is notably the grand-niece of Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, a Belgian foreign minister (1980-1981). Her first novel, Hygiène de l'assassin, was published in 1992. Since then, she has published approximately one novel per year with a.o. Les Catilinaires (1995), Stupeur Et Tremblements (1999) and Métaphysique des tubes (2000).

She has been awar

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Italo Svevo

Aron Hector Schmitz, better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo, was an Italian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer.

A close friend of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce, Svevo was considered a pioneer of the psychological novel in Italy and is best known for his classic modernist novel La coscienza di Zeno (1923), a work that had a profound effect on the movement.

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Laura Pugno

Per diversi anni ha lavorato nelle redazioni di case editrici, riviste e siti web, soprattutto di cinema. È stata lettrice di sceneggiature, e consulente per la Rai.Ha tradotto più di una decina tra saggi e romanzi dall’inglese e dal francese e insegnato traduzione all’Università di Roma "La Sapienza".
Collabora con le pagine culturali del «Manifesto» e con la Cronaca di Roma di «Repubblica».
Nel 2001 ha raccolto le sue poesie, con alcune prose di Giulio Mozzi, in Tennis, Nuova Magenta Editrice. Il suo primo libro di racconti, Sleepwalking, è uscito nel 2002 per Sironi editore. Nel 2005 è stata finalista al premio di poesia Antonio Delfini e ha vinto il premio Scrivere Cinema all'Autumn Film Festival.
Ad aprile 2007 pubblica il poemetto Il col

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Cinzia Arruzza

Cinzia Arruzza is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and subsequently studied at the universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), and Bonn (Germany), where she was the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship. Her research interests include ancient metaphysics and political thought, Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, feminist theory and Marxism. She is currently working on two projects: 1) a monograph on tyranny and the tyrant in Plato's Republic; 2) a research project on gender, capitalism, social reproduction, and Marx's critique of political economy.

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Carlo Cassola

(Roma, 1917 - Montecarlo di Lucca, 1987)
Frequenta il Ginnasio-Liceo "Tasso" e in seguito l'"Umberto I", per poi iscriversi, nel 1935, alla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell’ Università di Roma. L’attività letteraria era già cominciata negli anni ’30: tra il ’37 e il ’40, egli aveva licenziato diversi racconti, (alcuni dei quali pubblicati sulle riviste “Meridiano di Roma” e “Letteratura”), in seguito riuniti nel volume “La visita” (1942). Pare evidente, negli scritti succitati, la suggestione dei “Dublinesi” di Joyce (“In Joyce scoprii il primo scrittore che concentrasse la sua attenzione su quegli aspetti della vita che per me erano sempre stati i più importanti e di cui gli altri sembravano non accorgersi nemmeno”), primo passo verso quella

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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, was one of the leading Italian novelists of the twentieth century whose novels explore matters of modern sexuality, social alienation, and existentialism. He was also a journalist, playwright, essayist and film critic.
Moravia was an atheist, his writing was marked by its factual, cold, precise style, often depicting the malaise of the bourgeoisie, underpinned by high social and cultural awareness. Moravia believed that writers must, if they were to represent reality, assume a moral position, a clearly conceived political, social, and philosophical attitude, but also that, ultimately, "A writer survives in spite of his beliefs".

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Marisha Pessl

Marisha Pessl grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, her debut novel, was a bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. It won the 2006 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize (now the Center for Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize), and was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Her new novel, Night Film, comes out August 20, 2013.

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Claude Simon

Awarded 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature, for being an author "who in his novel combines the poet's and the painter's creativeness with a deepened awareness of time in the depiction of the human condition."

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Henrik Pontoppidan

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917 "for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." (Award shared with Karl Gjellerup.)

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Eugen Herrigel

Eugen Herrigel was a German philosopher who taught philosophy at Tohoku Imperial University in Sendai, Japan, from 1924 to 1929 and introduced Zen to large parts of Europe through his writings. He was a member of the Militant League for German Culture and was committed to Nazi beliefs until he died.

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Dacia Maraini

Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. Maraini's work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.

Alberto Moravia was her partner from 1962 until 1983.

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Jennifer duBois

Jennifer duBois is the recipient of a 2013 Whiting Writer’s Award and a 2012 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 award. Her debut novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was the winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Fiction. Jennifer earned a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before completing a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, The Missouri Review, Salon, The Kenyon Review, Cosmopolitan, Narrative, ZYZZYVA, and has been a

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Ángeles Caso

Ángeles Caso was born in Gijón in 1959 and has a degree in History of Art. She has worked in various different cultural and media institutions.

Her previous works include: "Elisabeth, emperatriz de Austria-Hungría o el hada maldita", the story of a great woman who defied her times; "El peso de las sombras" (A 1994 Planeta Prize finalist), a majestic tale of love and frustration; "El mundo visto desde el cielo", a parable of love and inspiration and "El resto de la vida", a novel about the vagaries of identity and the strength of desire. "Un largo silencio" (Winner of the 2000 Fernando Lara prize) is now seen as a milestone in writing about the recuperation of historical memory and has gone into numerous editions. She wrote the biography "Giu

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Craig A. Monson

Craig A Monson has been fascinated by Renaissance and Baroque European history and culture (particularly of England and Italy) for half-a-century, and by Native American history and culture (particularly of the southwest and northern plains) since the late 1940s. His most familiar books are Nuns Behaving Badly: Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy (2010, named a “Best Book of 2010” by the Newberry Rare Book Library, Chicago), Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music and Defiance in 17th-century Italy (2012), and Habitual Offenders: A True Tale of Nuns, Prostitutes, and Murderers in 17th-century Italy (2016, named a finalist [non-fiction] for The Bridge Book Award, 2017). Educated at Yale, Oxford, U.C. Berkeley, and Navajo Communit

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Clelia Marchi

Clelia Marchi was a farmer from the North of Italy who became famous in the Eighties for having written her autobiography on a sheet. She wrote her story as a way to cope with her beloved husband's death, on a sheet that she had received as part of her dowry.
The story of a tough, hard-working life, which nonetheless was rich with love and happiness, soon became a success in Italy.

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Francesco Boer

Sono nato nel 1980. Ho studiato da ragioniere, ma poi mi sono perso per strada, inseguendo i simboli come un bimbo che corre dietro alle farfalle.

Abito a Selz, in provincia di Gorizia. Crescere e vivere vicino al confine mi ha dato la possibilità di comprendere che la realtà non è risolvibile in una visione univoca. Il mondo è fatto di contrasti e sfumature, non c’è una verità unica ma tante voci diverse. Voci che possono cercare di sopraffarsi l’una contro l’altra, oppure accordarsi in un coro armonioso. Forse è anche per questo che sono affascinato dal mondo dei simboli, un argomento che studio da anni in tutte le sue sfaccettature. L’espressione simbolica è infatti una costante dell’essere umano. Nei simboli si può trovare un tratto comu

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Andrea Pazienza

Andrea Pazienza debuted in 1977 on the magazine Alteralter with his first comic story, The Extraordinary Adventures of Pentothal, the surrealistic and psychedelic story of an alter ego named after the sedative Penthothal. He subsequently published several short stories on Cannibale, Il Male, and Frigidaire, of which he was one of the founders. Pazienza developed a personal body of work, alternating between playful comic cartooning—at times politically charged–and much more elaborate, dark, disturbing graphic novels, often dealing with drugs and wanton violence, with a scattering of black humor throughout. In 1980, he created the character Zanardi and collaborated with the magazines Corto Maltese and Comic Art, while also producing movie and

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Matilde Serao

Matilde Serao (Italian pronunciation: [maˈtilde seˈraːo]; March 7, 1856 – 25 July 1927) was a Greek-born Italian journalist and novelist. She was the founder and editor of Il Mattino, and she also wrote several novels.

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Massimo Bontempelli

Massimo Bontempelli was an Italian novelist, short story and theater writer, literary and art theorist and critic.

Best known for coining the literary term Magical Realism and creating its theoretical framework. His efforts to implement this specific poetics in his writings begin after his initial experiments, first with traditional poetry (Carduccian classicism) , then humorist, ironic stories (influenced by Pirandello) and short escapades in surrealism and futurism.
Despite forming a literary model for Magic Realism with his own novels and short stories, Bontempelli's importance as a Magic Realist writer is mainly neglected and overthrown in contemporary theories on Magic Realism. Only few authors (mostly Italian authors but A. C. Hegerfe

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Marina Pierri

Half from Bari and half from Salento (thus 100% Pugliese, as she likes to say), Marina Pierri is a fan of weird science and fantastic fiction, fairy tales and happy endings. She is deeply fond of semiotics and story structure, which she also teaches. Marina has published three essays including her debut Eroine, focused on her theory of The Heroine’s Journey, a podcast called Soglie, and her first novel Gotico salentino. A reader, a watcher and a gamer, she currently lives in Milan and is working on her second novel.

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Giuseppe Pontiggia

Giuseppe Pontiggia was an Italian writer and literary critic.

He was born in Como, and moved to Milan with his family in 1948. In 1959 he graduated from the Università Cattolica in Milan with a thesis on Italo Svevo. After a first unnoticed short story anthology published in 1959, Pontiggia, encouraged by Elio Vittorini, decided to devote himself entirely to writing starting from 1961.

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Alessandro Boffa

I worked as a biologist for two years, in a lab where I had to titillate frogs and rats to collect their eggs and semen. It didn't exactly match the romantic dreams I had about science. I switched my field of interest to the human brain and worked on a mathematical model of the cerebral cortex and thought processes. Continuously thinking about thinking managed to drive me crazy and so, one day, during the financial boom of 1986 I made some money on the stock exchange and left for a three-week vacation that lasted some eleven years, one in California and ten in East Asia. I took a diploma in gemology in Bangkok and started dealing precious stones, then I spent five years in a little island in Thailand, running some bungalows and a little res

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Claudia Durastanti

Claudia Durastanti è una scrittrice e traduttrice italiana. Si laurea in antropologia culturale all'Università La Sapienza di Roma, per poi proseguire gli studi alla De Montfort University di Leicester e tornando a La Sapienza per un master in editoria e giornalismo.

Ha lavorato come consulente editoriale per il Salone del libro di Torino e ha cofondato il Festival Italian of Literature in London.

Ha esordito nel 2010 con il romanzo Un giorno verrò a lanciare sassi alla tua finestra vincendo il Premio Mondello Giovani, il Premio Castiglioncello Opera Prima ed arrivando in finale al Premio John Fante.

Traduttrice presso Marsilio e minimum fax, ha in seguito pubblicato i romanzi A Chloe, per le ragioni sbagliate nel 2013 e tre anni dopo Cleopatr

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Sady Doyle

Sady Doyle is better known as Jude Ellison S. Doyle

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Federico Castigliano

Federico Castigliano holds a PhD from the University of Turin (Italy) and he is qualified as Associate Professor in Italian Studies. After working for several years in France, he currently teaches at Beijing International Studies University in China. His studies address the relationship between urban space and literature and the impact of city developments on works of art.

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Ottiero Ottieri

Ottiero Lucioli Ottieri della Ciaja, noto comunemente come Ottiero Ottieri, è stato uno scrittore, sociologo e traduttore italiano.
Nato a Roma nel 1924, ha cominciato a scrivere a quattordici anni, sulla terrazza di un alberghetto a Villabassa, descrivendo le Dolomiti.
Per un certo periodo si dedicò alla letteratura greca traducendo (e pubblicando giovanissimo presso l’editore Capriotti), l’Agamennone di Eschilo, preceduto di un saggio introduttivo. Dopo la laurea ha seguito un corso di perfezionamento in letteratura inglese.
Nel 1948 si trasferì a Milano. Fa l’analisi con Cesare Musatti, frequenta la sede del PSI e collabora all’“Avanti”, psicoanalisi e politica sono gli strumenti per entrare nella vita. Viene assunto dalla casa editrice Mon

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Giuseppe Berto

Giuseppe Berto (27 December 1914 – 1 November 1978) was an Italian writer and screenwriter. He is mostly known for his novels Il cielo è rosso (The Sky Is Red) and Il male oscuro.

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Fabio Bacà

Fabio Bacà è nato nel 1972 a San Benedetto del Tronto, e vive ad Alba Adriatica.

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Giada Messetti

Giada Messetti è originaria di Gemona del Friuli (Udine). Sinologa, ha vissuto a lungo in Cina, dove ha scritto per «Diario» e ha collaborato con gli uffici di corrispondenza della Rai, del «Corriere della Sera» e de «la Repubblica». Rientrata in Italia nel 2011, ha lavorato per diverse trasmissioni televisive e radiofoniche di Rai e La7. Attualmente è autrice del programma di approfondimento di Rai3 «#CartaBianca» e cura una rubrica di notizie cinesi su Rai Radio1. Insieme a Simone Pieranni, ha ideato e condotto il podcast sulla Cina Risciò, disponibile sulle principali piattaforme di streaming. Per Mondadori ha pubblicato Nella testa del Dragone (2020).

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Piero Chiara

Pierino Angelo Carmelo "Piero" Chiara (Luino 1913 – Varese 1986) è stato uno scrittore italiano, tra i più noti della seconda metà del XX secolo.

Piero Chiara was an Italian writer. He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore (northern Italy) into a family of Sicilian origin. Sought by the Fascist milice during World War II, he fled to Switzerland in 1944. He returned to Italy two years later, starting the activity of writer.His most famous work is La stanza del vescovo of 1976, which was turned into a film by Dino Risi soon afterwards.
He died in Varese in 1986.

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Riccardo Falcinelli

Riccardo Falcinelli è uno dei piú apprezzati visual designer sulla scena della grafica italiana, che ha contribuito a innovare progettando libri e collane per diversi editori. Insegna Psicologia della percezione presso la facoltà di Design ISIA di Roma.

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Alessandro Baronciani

Alessandro Baronciani è fumettista, illustratore, art director, grafico e musicista. Classe 1974, pesarese di nascita ma milanese d'adozione, ha pubblicato per “La Repubblica XL” e “Rumore Magazine”. Cantante e musicista punk con il gruppo “Altro”, ha dato vita al progetto darkwave “Tante Anna”. Nel 2006, pubblica per Black Velvet Una storia a fumetti, raccolta delle sue prime autoproduzioni. Sempre per Black Velvet, pubblica Quando tutto diventò blu e Le ragazze nello studio di Munari. Nel 2013 dà avvio alla collaborazione con BAO Publishing, per la quale pubblica Raccolta – 1992/2012. Nel 2015, sempre per BAO Publishing, pubblica La distanza, sceneggiato da Colapesce.

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panpanya

Panpanya (Japanese: パンパンヤ) is a Japanese manga author. Their real name, age and gender are unknown to the general public.
Panpanya's books are collections of short stories, usually first published in the 'josei' (woman) magazine Rakuen. The stories mix slice-of-life and surrealism and are independent from one another, albeit sharing a roster of recurrent characters. The nameless protagonist, generally seen as a cartoon alter-ego of the author, is a girl of undefined age, sometimes portrayed as a schooler, sometimes as an adult.
Panpanya emerged from the indie doujinshi (amateur) manga scene around 2010. Their professional career started in 2013 with the book Ashizuri Suizokukan (Ashizuri Aquarium). The following book An Invitation from a Crab

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Benedetta Craveri

Benedetta Craveri, granddaughter of the noted philosopher Benedetto Croce, is a professor of French literature at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and to the italian newspaper La Repubblica.

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Francesco Dimitri

Francesco Dimitri is an Italian author living in London.

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Silvio D'Arzo

Silvio D’Arzo (pseudonym of Ezio Comparoni) was born in Reggio nell'Emilia in 1920. He wrote of the loneliness of the human being, the unpredictability of destiny, the search for a consolation that gives meaning to existence. Despite his untimely death, his production is wide and heterogeneous, including essays on English and American literature (Stevenson and Conrad in particular), and several poems. However, today he is mostly remembered as a fiction writer. His best-known short novella is The House of the Others, described by Eugenio Montale as "a perfect story".

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Carl Spitteler

Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.

Spitteler was born in Liestal. His father was an official of the government, being Federal Secretary of the Treasury from 1849–56. Young Spitteler attended the gymnasium at Basel, having among his teachers philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and historian Jakob Burckhardt. From 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865–1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel, though when a position as pastor was offered him, he felt that he must decline it. He had begun t

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Eva Cantarella

Eva Cantarella (born 1936 in Rome) is an Italian classicist. She is professor of Roman law and ancient Greek law at the University of Milan, and has served as Dean of the Law School at the University of Camerino.

Cantarella is known for examining ancient law by relating it to modern legal issues through law and society perspective. She has researched subjects involving the legal and social history of sexuality, women's conditions, criminal law and capital punishment.

She has written many books, which have been translated into several languages, including English, French, German and Spanish. Cantarella is also editor of Dike - International Journal of Greek Law and a member of several editorial boards such as Apollo - Bollettino dei Musei prov

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Antonio Fogazzaro

Fogazzaro was born in Vicenza to a rich family.

In 1864 he got a law degree in Turin. In Milan he followed the scapigliatura movement.

In 1869 he was back in Vicenza to work as lawyer, but he left this path very soon to write books full time.

In his works one finds a constant conflict between sense of duty and passions, faith and reason. In some cases this brings the tormented soul of characters into mystic experiences. Arguably his masterpiece was Piccolo Mondo Antico (variously titled in English translations as The Patriot or as Little World of the Past). This well written novel is set in his beloved Valsolda on Lake Lugano, Italy, in the 1850s. It has delightful evocations of the landscape, and strong characterizations which reveal the inne

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Aldo Palazzeschi

Aldo Palazzeschi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo palatˈtseski]; 2 February 1885 – 17 August 1974) was the pen name of Aldo Giurlani, an Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist.

He was born in Florence to a well-off, bourgeois family. Following his father's direction he studied accounting but gave up that pursuit as he became enamored with the theater and acting. Respectful of his father's wishes that the family name not be associated with acting, he chose his maternal grandmother's maiden name Palazzeschi as a pseudonym.

His family's comfortable circumstances enabled him to publish his first book of poetry, I cavalli bianchi (The White Horses) in 1905 using his acting pseudonym.

After meeting Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, he became a ferve

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Alberto Arbasino

Lo scrittore e saggista Alberto Arbasino nasce a Voghera il giorno 22 gennaio 1930. Laureatosi in Giurisprudenza, si specializza poi in Diritto internazionale all'Università di Milano. L'esordio come scrittore avviene nel 1957: il suo editor è Italo Calvino. I primi racconti di Arbasino sono inizialmente pubblicati su riviste, poi saranno raccolti ne "Le piccole vacanze" e "L'anonimo lombardo".

Grande estimatore di Carlo Emilio Gadda, Arbasino ne analizza la scrittura in varie opere: ne "L'ingegnere e i poeti: Colloquio con C. E. Gadda" (1963), ne "I nipotini dell'ingegnere 1960: anche in Sessanta posizioni" (1971), e nel saggio "Genius Loci" (1977).

Scrive anche reportage Da Parigi e Londra per il settimanale "Il Mondo", poi raccolti nei l

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Paul Willems

Paul Willems était un écrivain francophone Belge.

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Paul Willems was een Belgische franstalige schrijver.

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Paul Willems was a french-speaking Belgian writer.

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Raffaele La Capria

Raffaele La Capria was an Italian writer, known especially for the three novels which were collected as "Tre romanzi di una giornata".
La Capria was born in Naples, where he was to spend the formative years of his life. There he graduated in law, before staying in France, England and the United States and then settling in Rome. He contributed to the cultural pages of the Corriere della Sera and was co-director of the literary journal Nuovi Argomenti. A particular interest was English poetry of the 1930s: as well as writing numerous articles he translated works including T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. In the 1950s he wrote and produced a number of radio programmes for RAI on foreign contemporary drama. In 1957 he was invited to participate in t

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Lucio Dalla

Lucio Dalla; (4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards. He is considered one of the most prominent cantautori and collaborated with many others Italian songwriters as Luigi Tenco, Gino Paoli, Francesco De Gregori and international musician as Chet Baker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and many more.

Dalla was born in Bologna, Italy. He began to play the clarinet at an early age, in a jazz band in Bologna, and became a member of a local jazz band called Rheno Dixieland Band, together with future film director Pupi Avati. Avati said that he decided to leave the band after feeling overwhelmed by Dalla's talent. He also acknowledged that his film, Ma quando arrivano le r

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Anna Banti

Anna Banti is the pseudonym of Lucia Lopresti, an Italian biographer, critic, and author of fiction. Much of her fiction has a central theme of women's struggles for equal opportunity.

Banti graduated from the University of Rome. She directed the literary section of the magazine Paragone and took on direction of the art section after the death of her husband, famous art critic Roberto Longhi.

Her most famous work is Artemisia, based on life of seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, written when she was 52 years old.

Banti died in Ronchi di Massa, Italy, at the age of 90.

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Luciano Canfora

Luciano Canfora (Bari, 1942) è un filologo classico, storico, saggista e accademico italiano.
Canfora è figlio dello storico della filosofia Fabrizio Canfora e della latinista e grecista Rosa Cifarelli, entrambi docenti del prestigioso Liceo Ginnasio Quinto Orazio Flacco di Bari nonché antifascisti protagonisti della vita culturale e civile della città nel secondo dopoguerra. È professore emerito di filologia greca e latina presso l'Università di Bari e coordinatore scientifico della Scuola superiore di studi storici di San Marino. È membro dei comitati direttivi di diverse riviste, sia scientifiche sia di alta divulgazione, come il Journal of Classical Tradition di Boston, la spagnola Historia y crítica, la rivista italiana di alta divulgaz

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