Piergiorgio Bellocchio (15 December 1931 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer, literary critic and journalist.

Life and career

The brother of the film director

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, Bellocchio became first known as the founder and editor of the left-wing anti-Marxist political magazine ''

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'' (Italian: "Piacenza Notebooks", 1962-1984). After the closure of ''Quaderni'' he founded and directed the magazine ''Diario'' (1985-1993). He was the first editor-in-chief of the far-left ''

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'' newspaper, and he also collaborated as a columnist with other publications including ''

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'' and ''

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''. Bellocchio published books with

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, Rizzoli,

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, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, and directed the publishing house Gulliver. His style has been described as "a mixture of satire, aphorisms and glimpses of narrative and reality, expressed in an always very clear writing".

References

External links

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