Giuseppe D'Agata (11 January 1927 – 29 March 2011) was an Italian author, screenwriter and television writer.

Life and career

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, the son of a typographer, at 17 years old D'Agata became a militant in the partisan brigade "Matteotti Sap" and then in 1944 he enrolled the

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and later the

Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity The Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (''Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria'', PSIUP) was a political party in Italy, active from 1964 to 1972. History The PSIUP was formed on 12 January 1964 by a leftist section of the ...

. He wrote several novels based on his own experiences as a partisan, and some of his novels such as ''L' esercito di Scipione'' and ''Il medico della mutua'' were adapted into films. He was also active as a screenwriter and a television writer, often collaborating with

Andrea Camilleri Andrea Calogero Camilleri (; 6 September 1925 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian writer. Biography Originally from Porto Empedocle, Girgenti, Sicily, Camilleri began university studies in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Palermo, b ...

. His last work was the novel ''Pippo per gli amici'', released in 2007.

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* * 1927 births 2011 deaths Writers from Bologna 20th-century Italian male writers 21st-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian novelists Italian screenwriters Italian television writers Italian male screenwriters Male television writers {{Italy-writer-stub