Starting from 1986, he mostly dealt with the situation in the Balkan area and wrote several articles on the War in Yugoslavia, and won the Hemingway Prize for his works on Bosnia. He also worked from Kabul after it was invaded by US troops. His reportages on the Yugoslavian area include Maschere per un massacro (1996) and La linea dei mirtilli (1997).
His works include Storie di una nuova Europa (1990), La leggenda dei monti naviganti (2007), Tre uomini in bicicletta (with Altan, 2008), L'Italia in seconda classe (2009), Trans Europa Express (2012), Morimondo (2013), Come cavalli che dormono in piedi (2014), La cotogna di Istanbul (2015), Il Ciclope (2015), Appia (2016), La regina del silenzio (2017), Il filo infinito (2019), Il veliero sul tetto. Appunti per una clausura (2020), Canto per Europa (2021).
Stefano Benni is an Italian satirical writer, poet and journalist. His books have been translated into around 20 foreign languages and scored notable commercial success. 2.5 million copies of his books have been sold in Italy.
Giorgio Bassani was an Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and international intellectual.
Maraschino is a liqueur obtained from the distillation of Marasca cherries. The small, slightly sour fruit of the Marasca cherry tree, which grows wild along parts of the Dalmatian coast in Croatia, lends the liqueur its unique aroma.
Carlo Levi was an Italian painter, writer, activist, independent leftist politician, and doctor.
Giulietto Chiesa was an Italian journalist, author, lecturer and politician. He was Vice-President of the European Parliament Committee on International Trade and a member of two Extraordinary Committees inside the European Parliament: the Extraordinary Renditions Committee and the Climate Change Committee. He was the founder of the cultural association Megachip. Democracy in Communications. He was the Chief Editor of the web TV Pandora TV.
Paolo Villaggio was an Italian actor, voice actor, writer, director and comedian. He is noted for the characters he created with paradoxical and grotesque characteristics: Professor Kranz, the ultra-timid Giandomenico Fracchia, and the obsequious and meek accountant Ugo Fantozzi, perhaps the favourite character in Italian comedy. He wrote several books, usually of satirical character. He also acted in dramatic roles, and appeared in several movies.
Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.
Fulvio Tomizza was an Italian writer. He was born in Giurizzani di Materada in Istria, to a middle-class family. His mother was Margherita Frank Trento, born into a poor family of Slavic extraction. His father, Ferdinando, reportedly was from an ancient family of southern Dalmatian Italian origins. Tomizza grew up in a zone where the dialect was mixed.
Bruno Paolo Vespa is an Italian television and newspaper journalist. A former director of the Italian state-owned TV channel Rai 1's news programme TG1, Vespa is the founding host of the programme Porta a Porta, which has been broadcast without interruption on RAI channels since 1996.
Enrico Rossi is an Italian politician and former President of Tuscany.
Fernando Vianello was an Italian economist and academic. Together with Michele Salvati, Sebastiano Brusco, Andrea Ginzburg and Salvatore Biasco, he founded the Faculty of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Riccardo Mannelli, is an Italian artist and illustrator.
Viviana Mazza is a writer and a journalist at the foreign desk for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. At Corriere she specializes in covering the United States and the Middle East. She has also covered, among other countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. She edits the America-Cina newsletter and contributes to the La27Ora blog.
Paolo Isotta was an Italian musicologist and writer.
Giorgio Locchi was an Italian journalist and writer. He was among the founders of GRECE.
Avezzano concentration camp was an Italian assembly and detention camp set up in 1916 in Avezzano, Abruzzo, during World War I, immediately after the 1915 Marsica earthquake that almost completely destroyed it, decimating the population. The camp was reserved to about 15,000 prisoners from the Austro-Hungarian army, mainly of Czech–Slovak, Polish, German, and Hungarian nationalities; Romanians, who were gathered in the Romanian Legion of Italy by the end of the conflict, had a garrison and a training camp in Avezzano. Mostly abandoned in 1920, a sector was reused in World War II to house British, Indian and New Zealand prisoners of war.
Andrea Marinelli is a journalist for the Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. At Corriere he works at the foreign desk and covers US news. Previously, he worked together with Milena Gabanelli in the investigative data-journalism project Dataroom. Marinelli lived in New York City for many years and wrote dozens of reportages from the United States. Before joining Corriere della Sera, he wrote for Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Manifesto, International Business Times and many other publications.
Adele Cambria was an Italian journalist, writer and actress.
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