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Laudomia Bonanni
Laudomia Bonanni (8 December 1907 – 21 February 2002) was an Italian writer and journalist. Although she started publishing when she was a teenager, her literary career took off in 1948 when she won a national contest; she went on to be a prolific and award-winning author. The Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale compared her realism to James Joyce’s ''Dubliners'', and other distinguished critics considered her one of the most important and original voices in Italy’s post-World War II literature. Biography Laudomia Bonanni was born in 1907 in L'Aquila, the capital city of the mountainous Abruzzo region of Central Italy, located about 60 miles northeast of Rome. Her parents were Giovanni, a musician turned coal merchant, and Amelia Perilli, a primary school teacher. They named her after a character in ''Niccoló de' Lapi'' (1841), a historical novel by Massimo D'Azeglio. After graduating from the Istituto magistrale in 1924, Bonanni taught in several village schools in the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Fiorani
Alfredo Lucio Esposito, also known under the pseudonym of Alfredo Fiorani (December 13, 1953 – February 29, 2016), was an Italian poet, writer, essayist and Intellectual, man of letters. Biography Born in La Spezia, but always lived in Abruzzo, in Sulmona and L'Aquila, he made his debut in fiction with the collection of short stories entitled "Con la 13a ora cessò il vento delle campane" (Poggibonsi, 1982), followed by numerous works with which he has ranged from poetry to fiction, to non-fiction. He has collaborated with literary magazines, online magazines and daily newspapers, including "Oggi e Domani", "Abruzzo letterario", "L'erba d'Arno", "La nuova gazzetta", "Provincia Oggi", "Novanta9", " SuperMoney "," Corretta Informazione.it", "QN Quotidiano Nazionale", Il Centro, Il Resto del Carlino (Teramo edition). As a publicist and literary critic he has dealt with Marco Vichi, Ernest Hemingway, Beppe Fenoglio, Raffaele La Capria and many others. He edited the prefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
