Piero Chiara (March 23, 1913 – December 31, 1986) was an Italian writer. He was born in Luino, on

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(northern

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). His father Eugenio was from Resuttano, Sicily; his mother Virginia Maffei was from Comnago, a Piedmontese village in the municipality of Lesa. Sought by the Fascist militia during World War II, he fled to Switzerland in 1944. He returned to Italy two years later, starting his writing career. His most famous work is '' La stanza del vescovo'' of 1976, which was turned into a film by

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soon afterwards. He was married to Jula Sherb of Swiss origin.Corriere della Sera: "Marco Chiara, una vita tutta da raccontare" by Manzoni Franco
10 maggio 2011 They had one son Marco Chiara who was married and divorced from Judith Loeb Chiara of the

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. He died in

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in 1986. ''The Disappearance of Signora Giulia'' was the first of his books to be translated into English.

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1913 births 1986 deaths People from the Province of Varese Italian male writers People of Sicilian descent People of Piedmontese descent {{Italy-writer-stub