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Ferdinando Camon (born 1935 in Montagnana) is a contemporary Italian writer. [1] He is married to a journalist and has two sons: Alessandro Camon, a film producer/writer who lives in Los Angeles, and Alberto, who teaches criminal procedure and lives in Bologna. He has contributed to a number of Italian and foreign daily newspapers, including La Stampa , l'Unità , Avvenire , Le Monde and La Nación .
Perhaps Camon's best-known work in English is his trilogy of fictional memoirs consisting of The Fifth Estate (Il Quinto Stato), Life Everlasting (La Vita Eterna), and Memorial (Un altare per la madre).