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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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  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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  Paolo Nori

  Dopo il diploma in ragioneria ha lavorato in Algeria, Iraq e Francia. Tornato in Italia ha conseguito la laurea in Lingua e Letteratura Russa presso l'Università di Parma, con una tesi sulla poesia di Velimir Chlebnikov. Ha quindi esercitato per un certo tempo l'attività di traduttore di manuali tecnici dal russo part time. Alla redazione de Il semplice conosce Ermanno Cavazzoni, Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia, Daniele Benati, con i quali collabora per anni, cominciando a pubblicare i suoi scritti fortemente influenzati dalle avanguardie russe ed emiliane. È fondatore e redattore della rivista L'Accalappiacani, edita da DeriveApprodi. Collabora con alcuni quotidiani tra cui Il Manifesto, Libero, Il Foglio e Il Fatto Quotidiano.

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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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  Michele Mari

  Michele Mari è nato a Milano nel 1955.
  Figlio del designer e artista Enzo Mari, insegna Letteratura Italiana all'Università Statale di Milano. Dal 1992 risiede a Roma.
  
  Filologo, cultore di fantascienza e di fumetti, il suo stile letterario, estremamente composito, sembra richiamare scrittori quali Carlo Emilio Gadda, Tommaso Landolfi e Giorgio Manganelli, e fuori d'Italia, Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
  
  Oltre alle opere narrative, va segnalata la produzione poetica. Rilevante anche l'attività critico-filologica e saggistica, volta soprattutto alla letteratura italiana del Sette-Ottocento e alla letteratura fantastica in chiave comparatistica.
  
  Alcuni suoi libri sono Di bestia in bestia (Longanesi 1989), Io venía pien d'angoscia a rimirarti (Longanesi

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  Guido Morselli

  Guido Morselli (1912–1973) spent his youth in Milan, where his father was an executive with a pharmaceutical company. When he was twelve his mother died from Spanish flu, an event that devastated the reserved child. After attending a Jesuit-run primary school and a classical secondary school, Morselli graduated from the Università degli Studi di Milano with a law degree in 1935. Instead of practicing law, however, he embarked on a long trip around the Continent. Though he wrote consistently from the remote town in the lake region of Lombardy where he lived alone, Morselli succeeded in publishing only two books over the course of his life: the essays Proust o del sentimento (Proust, or On Sentiment, 1943) and Realismo e fantasia (Realism and

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  Niccolò Ammaniti

  Niccolò Ammaniti was born in Rome in 1966. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. He won the prestigious Italian Viareggio-Repaci Prize for Fiction with his bestselling novel I'm Not Scared, which has been translated into thirty-five languages.

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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.
  
  (Wikipedia)

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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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  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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  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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  Vincenzo Consolo

  Vincenzo Consolo (born in Sant'Agata di Militello on February 18, 1933) is an Italian writer. He has lived in Milan since 1969. He debuted in 1963, but gained wider attention in 1976 with Il sorriso dell’ignoto marinaio (The Smile of the Unknown Mariner) and has since become an awards wining author. He is convinced that ""non si possono scrivere romanzi perché ingannano il lettore", and writes novels with a poetic influence.

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  Michael McDowell

  Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.
  
  His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.
  
  In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.
  
  Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to

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  Ali Smith

  Ali Smith is a writer, born in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. She has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
  
  

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  Gianni Celati

  Gianni Celati (Sondrio, 1937) è stato uno scrittore, traduttore, anglista, critico letterario e documentarista italiano.
  
  Nasce a Sondrio, dove si trova la famiglia a causa del lavoro del padre, usciere di banca spostato spesso di sede in sede a causa dei litigi con i suoi superiori. Il padre Antonio era originario di Bondeno, vicino a Ferrara, mentre la madre, Exenia Dolores Martelli, era nata a Sandolo, vicino al delta del Po. Celati passa l'infanzia e l'adolescenza in provincia di Ferrara.
  Laureatosi in letteratura inglese presso l'Università di Bologna scrive articoli per Marcatré, Lingua e stile, Il Verri, Il Caffè, Quindici, Sigma, ecc. oltre a pubblicare le prime traduzioni. Assume la cattedra di letteratura angloamericana del DAMS di B

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  Dino Buzzati

  Dino Buzzati Traverso (1906 – 1972) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, pittore, drammaturgo, librettista, scenografo, costumista e poeta italiano.
  
  Dino Buzzati Traverso was an Italian novelist, short story writer, painter and poet, as well as a journalist for Corriere della Sera. His worldwide fame is mostly due to his novel Il deserto dei Tartari, translated into English as The Tartar Steppe.

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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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  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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  Carlo Levi

  Carlo Levi was an Italian-Jewish painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, and doctor.
  He is best known for his book, "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli), published in 1945; a memoir of his time spent in exile in Lucania, Italy, after being arrested in connection with his political activism. In 1979, the book became the basis of a movie of the same name, directed by Francesco Rosi. Lucania, now called Basilicata, is historically one of the poorest and most backward regions of the impoverished Italian south. Levi's lucid, non-ideological and sympathetic description of the daily hardships experienced by the local peasants helped to propel the "Problem of the South" into national discourse after the end of the World War II.

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  Valerio Massimo Manfredi

  Valerio Massimo Manfredi is an Italian historian, writer, archaeologist and journalist. He was born in Piumazzo di Castelfranco Emilia, province of Modena and is married to Christine Fedderson Manfredi, who translates his published works from Italian to English. They have two children and live in a small town near Bologna.
  Valerio Massimo Manfredi defines himself as an "Ancient World Topographer". Since 1978 he spends his time teaching in several European universities, digging ruins in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East, and writing novels.
  The Professor of Classical Archaeology in the "Luigi Bocconi" University of Milan and a familiar face on European television, he has led scientific expeditions, excavations and explorations in Italy

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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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  Guy de Maupassant

  Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular 19th-century French writer. He is one of the fathers of the modern short story. A protege of Flaubert, Maupassant's short stories are characterized by their economy of style and their efficient effortless dénouement. He also wrote six short novels. A number of his stories often denote the futility of war and the innocent civilians who get crushed in it - many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s.

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  Evelyn Waugh

  Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers; it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.”
  
  In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an appren

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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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  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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  Marco Antonio Bazzocchi

  Nel 1980 si iscrive presso la facoltà di Lettere classiche dell'Università di Bologna, dove nel 1985, sotto la guida di Ezio Raimondi, si laurea in Letteratura italiana con una tesi sulle forme narrative del romanzo dannunziano. Guidato sempre da Raimondi e da Fausto Curi, Bazzocchi consegue nel 1989 il dottorato di ricerca sulla presenza del mito nella poesia di Giovanni Pascoli. Dal lavoro di dottorato vede la luce, nel 1993, la sua prima monografia, Circe e il fanciullino. Interpretazioni pascoliane (La Nuova Italia). Nel frattempo, inizia a occuparsi di Giacomo Leopardi cui dedica un lungo commento alle Operette morali, la cura del volume miscellaneo Leopardi e Bologna (Olschki, 1999) e un commento, scritto insieme a Riccardo Bonavita,

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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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  Chiara Frugoni

  Chiara Frugoni è stata una storica italiana, specialista del Medioevo e di storia della Chiesa.
  
  Figlia del medievista Arsenio Frugoni, si è laureata nell'Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza" nel 1964 con una tesi dal titolo "Il tema dei tre vivi e dei tre morti nella tradizione medievale italiana", dove già si fa strada la ricerca di un metodo di lavoro che tenga in uguale conto testi e immagini, metodo che considererà sempre importante nella convinzione espressa che «l'immagine parla».
  
  Ha sposato Salvatore Settis nel 1965: dal matrimonio sono nati tre figli. Nel 1991 è passata a nuove nozze con Donato Cioli.
  
  Nel 1965 è stata ammessa al Diploma di perfezionamento alla Scuola Normale Superiore, e nel 1974 è approdata all'insegnamento un

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  Marilù Oliva

  Marilù Oliva, nata a Bologna, dove vive, è insegnante e scrittrice.
  Laureata in lettere moderne con una tesi sulle civiltà precolombiane e specializzata SSIS per l’insegnamento di lettere e di latino, prima di approdare come docente alle scuole superiori ha lavorato per diverse redazioni ed è stata direttrice artistica di una rivista di musica e cultura latinoamericana.
  Ha scritto saggi di storia contemporanea e di critica letteraria.
  La sua attività di scrittura è però principalmente legata alla narrativa: oltre a racconti per il web e per antologie cartacee e oltre a una sostenuta attività di critica (fa parte delle redazioni di Carmilla, Thriller Magazine, Sugarpulp e Bibliomanie), ha scritto tre romanzi: Repetita (Perdisa, 2009), Tu la pag

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