Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the finest literary figures of the 20th century.
Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, and writer. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics writer. Guccini also worked as actor, soundtrack composer, lexicographer and dialectologist.
Gianni Baget Bozzo was an Italian Catholic priest and politician.
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 gathered numerous friends who would dine there together and discuss books. They began charging fines to the person who arrived last to an appointed meal, or who failed to appear.
Aldo Busi is a contemporary Italian writer and translator, famous for his linguistic invention and for his polemic force as well as for some prestigious translations from English, German and ancient Italian that include Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Lewis Carroll, Christina Stead, Giovanni Boccaccio, Baldesar Castiglione, Friedrich Schiller, Joe Ackerley, John Ashbery, Heimito von Doderer, Ruzante, Meg Wolitzer, Paul Bailey, Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
The Rapallo Carige Prize is an Italian literary award, established in 1985 by the Municipality of Rapallo and the Carige Bank.
Edoardo Sanguineti was a Genoese poet, writer and academic, universally considered one of the major Italian authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
Alessandro Piperno is an Italian writer and literary critic of Jewish descent, having a Jewish father and a Catholic mother.
Antonio Moresco is an Italian writer.
Antonio Porta was an Italian author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
The Acqui Award of History is an Italian prize. The prize was founded in 1968 for remembering the victims of the Acqui Military Division who died in Cefalonia fighting against the Nazis. The jury is composed of seven members: six full professors of history and a group of sixty (60) ordinary readers who have just one representative in the jury. The Acqui Award Prize is divided into three sections: history, popular history, and historical novels. A special prize entitled “Witness to the Times,” given to individual personalities known for their cultural contributions and who have distinguished themselves in describing historical events and contemporary society, may also be conferred. Beginning in 2003 special recognition for work in multimedia and iconography--”History through Images”—was instituted.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Cesare Garboli was an Italian literary and theatre critic, translator, writer and academic.
Maria Antonietta Macciocchi was an Italian journalist, writer, feminist and politician, elected to the Italian Parliament in 1968 as an Italian Communist Party candidate and to the European Parliament in 1979 as a candidate of the Radical Party.
Pierdomenico Baccalario is an Italian author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his Ulysses Moore series that sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Luca Desiato is an Italian journalist and writer.
Giorgio Amitrano is an Italian Japanologist, translator and essayist, specializing in Japanese language and literature.
Mauro Corona, is an Italian writer, mountaineer and wood carver.
Umberto Curi is an Italian philosopher and former professor at University of Padua.
