Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italy, influential both as an artist and a political figure.
Biagio Marin (1891–1985) was a Venetian poet, best known for his poems in the Venetian language, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only employed a few hundred words for his poems.
Enzo Siciliano was an Italian writer, playwright, literary critic and intellectual.
Gabriella Sica is an Italian poet.
Margherita Guidacci, was an Italian poet born in Florence, Italy. She graduated from the University of Florence in 1943 and traveled to England and Ireland in 1947.
Olvido García Valdés is a Spanish poet, essayist, translator, and professor. She is married to the poet Miguel Casado.
The Flaiano Prizes are a set of Italian international awards recognizing achievements in the fields of creative writing, cinema, theater and radio-television. Established to honour the Italian author and screenwriter Ennio Flaiano (1910-1972), the prizes have been awarded annually since 1974 at the Teatro Monumentale Gabriele D'Annunzio in Pescara, Flaiano's hometown in Abruzzo, as well as D'Annunzio's.
Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Luigi Augusto Fontanella is a poet, critic, translator, playwright, and novelist.
Beppe Costa is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.
José Agustín Goytisolo Gay was a Spanish poet, scholar and essayist. He was the brother of Juan Goytisolo and Luis Goytisolo, also writers.
Alda Merini was an Italian writer and poet. Her work earned the attention and the admiration of other Italian writers, such as Giorgio Manganelli, Salvatore Quasimodo, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Domenico Naldini was an Italian novelist, poet and film director. Some of his work has been translated into English.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Brunello Rondi was a prolific Italian screen writer and film director best known for his frequent script collaborations with Federico Fellini.
Fabio Barcellandi is an Italian poet and translator.
Gian Vittorio Baldi was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.
Adele Cambria was an Italian journalist, writer, and actress.
Ugo Giletta is an Italian artist.
Mario Benedetti was an Italian poet. He was among the founders of the contemporary poetry magazines Scarto minimo and Arsenal littératures.
