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Ermanno Cavazzoni (born 5 June 1947) is an Italian writer and screenwriter. [1] [2] [3]
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Ermanno Cavazzoni (born 5 June 1947) is an Italian writer and screenwriter. [1] [2] [3]
Ermanno Cavazzoni was born in Reggio Emilia in 1947. In 1988, Cavazzoni won the Premio Bergamo for Il poema dei lunatici (The Voice of the Moon), and subsequently collaborated with Federico Fellini on his last film The Voice of the Moon , contributing to the screenplay adaptation of the novel. He is a professor at the University of Bologna and a member of OpLePo (Opificio di Letteratura Potenziale). [4] He was co-director of the magazine Il semplice (Feltrinelli, 1995-96) and Il Caffè illustrato (since 2001). In 2007, together with some friends (Gianni Celati, Ugo Cornia and Jean Talon), he created the fiction series "Compagnia Extra" for the Quodlibet publishing house. [5]
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