Piero Gadda Conti (13 February 1902 – 22 January 1999) was an Italian novelist and film critic. Born in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, the cousin of

Carlo Emilio Gadda Carlo Emilio Gadda (; November 14, 1893 – May 21, 1973) was an Italian writer and poet. He belongs to the tradition of the language innovators, writers that played with the somewhat stiff standard pre-war Italian language, and added elements of ...

, he debuted as a novelist in 1924 with ''L' estusiastica estate''. He got his breakout in 1930 with the novel ''Mozzo'', and in 1970 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 ...

with the novel ''La paura''. A film critic for the magazine ''La Fiera Letteraria'' and for the newspaper ''Il Popolo'', Gadda Conti was a jury member of the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...

five times, in 1950, 1951, 1955, 1958, and 1963.

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* 1902 births 1999 deaths Italian film critics 20th-century Italian people 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian male writers Italian male novelists Italian male non-fiction writers {{Italy-writer-stub