Leonida Rèpaci (
Palmi
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People Given name
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* Pálmi Gestsson (born 1957), Icelandic actor and voice actor
* Pálmi Gunnarsson (born 1950), Icelandic musician
* Pálmi Ha ...
, 5 April 1898 –
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, 19 July 1985) was an Italian writer and political activist. He won the
Bagutta Prize
The Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize that is awarded annually to Italian writers. The prize originated among patrons of Milan's ''Bagutta Ristorante''. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he regularly gathere ...
in 1933 and was one of the originators of the
Viareggio Prize
The Viareggio Prize ( it, Premio Viareggio, italic=no or ) is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, , Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese ...
, with Carlo Salsa and Alberto Colantuoni. He administered the prize until 1935 and then from 1946 until his death.
From 1945 to 1946 he was the co-editor of the newspaper ''
Il Tempo
''Il Tempo'' (meaning ''Time'' in English) is a daily Italian newspaper published in Rome, Italy.
History and profile
''Il Tempo'' was founded in Rome by Renato Angiolillo in 1944. At the initial phase the newspaper was a conservative publicat ...
''.
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1898 births
1985 deaths
Italian communists
20th-century Italian politicians
Italian newspaper editors
Italian male writers
Male journalists
20th-century Italian writers
20th-century male writers
20th-century Italian journalists
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