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Alberto Prunetti

Alberto Prunetti was born in Piombino (Italy), a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of a working class trilogy of novels and has translated works by George Orwell, Angela Davis, David Graeber, Bhaskar Sunkara and many others. Since 2018 he has directed the Working Class books series for the publisher Edizioni Alegre. He is a regular contributor of Il Manifesto, Jacobin Italia, Wu Ming's Giap and other magazines.

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Lucio Magri

Journalist and politician.

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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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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works, Ficciones (transl. Fictions) and El Aleph (transl. The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring motifs such as dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges's works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and have had a major influence on the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.
Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied at the Collège de Genèv

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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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Michel Foucault

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an intere

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Émile Zola

Émile Zola was a prominent French novelist, journalist, and playwright widely regarded as a key figure in the development of literary naturalism. His work profoundly influenced both literature and society through its commitment to depicting reality with scientific objectivity and exploring the impact of environment and heredity on human behavior. Born and raised in France, Zola experienced early personal hardship following the death of his father, which deeply affected his understanding of social and economic struggles—a theme that would later permeate his writings.
Zola began his literary career working as a clerk for a publishing house, where he developed his skills and cultivated a passion for literature. His early novels, such as Thérèse

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Virginia Woolf

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath was born in London and grew up near Broadmoor Hospital where his father was Medical Superintendent. He was educated at Stonyhurst College. He is a British novelist whose work has been categorized as gothic fiction. He is married to actress Maria Aitken and lives in New York City.

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Leonardo Sciascia

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Annie Ernaux

The author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, Annie Ernaux is considered by many to be France’s most important writer. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work. More recently she received the International Strega Prize, the Prix Formentor, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. Her other works include Exteriors, A Girl's Story, A Woman's Story, The Possession, Simple Passion, Happening, I Remain in Darkness, Shame, A Frozen Woman, and A Man's Place.

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V (formerly Eve Ensler)

V is an internationally bestselling author and an award-winning playwright whose works include The Vagina Monologues, The Good Body, Insecure at Last, and I Am an Emotional Creature, since adapted for the stage as Emotional Creature. She is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised more than $90 million for local groups and activists, and inspired the global action One Billion Rising. V lives in Paris and New York City.

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Peter Cameron

Peter Cameron (b. 1959) is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, he moved to New York City after graduating college in 1982. Cameron began publishing stories in the New Yorker one year later. His numerous award-winning stories for that magazine led to the publication of his first book, One Way or Another (1986), which received a special citation for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a First Book of Fiction. He has since focused on writing novels, including Leap Year (1990) and The City of Your Final Destination (2002), which was a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist. Cameron lives in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

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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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Fred Uhlman

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

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Silvia Federici

Silvia Federici is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist and anarchist tradition. She is a professor emerita and Teaching Fellow at Hofstra University, where she was a social science professor. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years, is also the co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, and is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

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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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Luciano Bianciardi

Luciano Bianciardi (Grosseto, 1922 – Milano, 1971) è stato uno scrittore, giornalista, traduttore, bibliotecario, attivista e critico televisivo italiano.
Contribuì significativamente al fermento culturale italiano nel dopoguerra, collaborando attivamente con varie case editrici, riviste e quotidiani. La sua opera narrativa è caratterizzata da punte di ribellione verso l'establishment culturale, a cui peraltro apparteneva, e da un'attenta analisi dei costumi sociali nell'Italia del boom economico, tanto che alla finzione narrativa si mescolano spesso brani saggistici che sfociano sovente nella sociologia. Legato per formazione e per scelta a tematiche classiste e libertarie, avrebbe dato all'impegno letterario il senso di un diretto engageme

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Nanni Balestrini

Nanni Balestrini was an Italian experimental poet, author and visual artist of the Neoavanguardia movement.
Nanni Balestrini is associated with the Italian writers movement Neoavanguardia. He wrote for the magazine Il Verri, co-directed Alfabeta and was one of the Italian writers publishing 1961 in the anthology I Novissimi. During the 1960s, the group was growing and becoming the Gruppo 63, Balestrini was the editor of their publications. From 1962 to 1972, he was working for Feltrinelli, cooperating with the Marsilio publishers and editing some issues of the Cooperativa Scrittori.
Balestrini's political activities are also noteworthy: in 1968, he was co-founder of the group Potere operaio, in 1976 an important supporter of the Autonomia. In

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Mark Fisher

Mark Fisher (1968 – 2017) was a co-founder of Zero Books and Repeater Books. His blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. He wrote three books, Capitalist Realism, Ghosts of My Life and The Weird and the Eerie, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Visual Cultures department at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han, also spelled Pyŏng-ch'ŏl Han (born 1959 in Seoul), is a German author, cultural theorist, and Professor at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) in Berlin, Germany.

Byung-Chul Han studied metallurgy in Korea before he moved to Germany in the 1980s to study Philosophy, German Literature and Catholic theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Munich. He received his doctoral degree at Freiburg with a dissertation on Martin Heidegger in 1994.

In 2000, he joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Basel, where he completed his Habilitation. In 2010 he became a faculty member at the HfG Karlsruhe, where his areas of interest were philosophy of the 18th, 19th and 20th century, ethics, social philosophy, phenomenology, cult

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Michela Murgia

Michela Murgia è nata a Cabras nel 1972 ed è stata a lungo animatrice in Azione Cattolica. Ha fatto studi teologici ed è socia onoraria del Coordinamento teologhe italiane. Ha pubblicato nel 2006 Il mondo deve sapere che ha ispirato il film Tutta la vita davanti e nel 2009 il bestseller Accabadora, vincitore del Premio Campiello 2010.

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Lucio Magri

Journalist and politician.

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Alberto Prunetti

Alberto Prunetti was born in Piombino (Italy), a Tuscan steel town in 1973. A former pizza chef, cleaner, and handyman, he is also the author of a working class trilogy of novels and has translated works by George Orwell, Angela Davis, David Graeber, Bhaskar Sunkara and many others. Since 2018 he has directed the Working Class books series for the publisher Edizioni Alegre. He is a regular contributor of Il Manifesto, Jacobin Italia, Wu Ming's Giap and other magazines.

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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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Sándor Márai

Sándor Márai (originally Sándor Károly Henrik Grosschmied de Mára) was a Hungarian writer and journalist.
He was born in the city of Kassa in Austria-Hungary (now Košice in Slovakia) to an old family of Saxon origin who had mixed with magyars through the centuries. Through his father he was a relative of the Ország-family. In his early years, Márai travelled to and lived in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Paris and briefly considered writing in German, but eventually chose his mother language, Hungarian, for his writings. He settled in Krisztinaváros, Budapest, in 1928. In the 1930s, he gained prominence with a precise and clear realist style. He was the first person to write reviews of the work of Kafka.
He wrote very enthusiastically about the Vienn

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Zerocalcare

Zerocalcare sul finire del 2011 ha quasi 28 anni e per un sacco di tempo ha fatto soprattutto fumettacci sulle fanzine fotocopiate e locandine per concerti punk hardcore. Oltre ad un numero sterminato di autoproduzioni nel circuito dei centri sociali, ha collaborato anche con il quotidiano "Liberazione" (pagina delle illustrazioni, ormai chiusa), il settimanale "Carta" (chiuso), i mensili "XL" di Repubblica (spazio Italian underground, chiuso) e "Canemucco" (chiuso) e la divisione online della DC comics, Zuda.com (chiusa). Tra le collaborazioni che non è riuscito a far chiudere c’è il settimanale "Internazionale", l’annuale antologia del fumetto indipendente "Sherwood Comix", la "Smemoranda" e frescafresca pure la rivista "Mamma!".

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Carla Lonzi

Carla Lonzi (Florence, March 6, 1931 – Milan, August 2, 1982) was an Italian art critic and feminist activist, who is best known as the cofounder of Rivolta Femminile (Feminine Revolt), an Italian feminist collective formed in 1970.

In the early 1970s, Lonzi adopted a feminist stance in relation to art. She had grown to view art as being yet another part of a system of institutions and labour which enable unequal power relations and the overall oppression of women. Lonzi became disillusioned and went as far as dismissing art criticism as a "phoney profession". She subsequently abandoned her career as an art critic and fully embraced the feminist cause.

Despite her eventual negative outlook on the field of art and art criticism, Lonzi has said

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Soraya Chemaly

Soraya Chemaly is a writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in politics, religion, education, tech, and media. A 2016 Mirror Award Winner, her work appears in a wide range of publications including TIME, The Guardian, The Nation, Huffington Post, Verge, Quartz, The Atlantic and The New Statesman. Chemaly is also involved with multiple anti-violence and media equity organizations dedicated to expanding women’s freedom of expression and public parity. She has been named by Elle Magazine, The Telegraph, and Fast Company as among the most inspiring women to follow in social media and the co-winner of a 2017 Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Story. You can find her on Instagram @sorayachemaly and @ragebecomesher as well

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Tomasi was born in Palermo to Giulio Maria Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa and Duke of Palma di Montechiaro, and Beatrice Mastrogiovanni Tasca Filangieri di Cutò. He became an only child after the death (from diphtheria) of his sister. He was very close to his mother, a strong personality who influenced him a great deal, especially because his father was rather cold and detached. As a child he studied in their grand house in Palermo with a tutor (including the subjects of literature and English), with his mother (who taught him French), and with a grandmother who read him the novels of Emilio Salgari. In the little theater of the house in Santa Margherita di Belice, where he spent long vacations, he first saw a performance of Shakespeare's Haml

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John Smith

John Smith received his PhD from the University of Sheffield and is currently self-employed as a researcher and writer. He has been an oil rig worker, bus driver, and telecommunications engineer, and is a longtime activist in the anti-war and Latin American solidarity movements.

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John Smith

John Smith received his PhD from the University of Sheffield and is currently self-employed as a researcher and writer. He has been an oil rig worker, bus driver, and telecommunications engineer, and is a longtime activist in the anti-war and Latin American solidarity movements.

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