Mary de Rachewiltz is an Italian-American poet and translator.
Fernanda Pivano was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
Giorgio Caproni was an Italian poet, literary critic and translator, especially from French. His work was also part of the literature event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Irma Kurti is a well-known Albanian poet, writer, lyricist, journalist and translator. She is a naturalized Italian citizen.
Michele Mari is an Italian novelist, short story writer, academic critic and poet. The son of a Milanese industrial designer and artist, Enzo Mari, Mari teaches Italian literature at the Università Statale di Milano; he is considered one of the leading experts of 18th century Italian literature.
Cesare Garboli was an Italian literary and theatre critic, translator, writer and academic.
Massimo Bacigalupo is an experimental filmmaker, scholar, and translator of poetry, essayist and literary critic. He was a founding member of the Cooperative of Independent Filmmakers in Rome. As a filmmaker of the Italian Independent Cinema, he was influenced by the New American Cinema.
Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the literature produced in Sardinia from around the 1980s onwards.
The San Pellegrino University Foundation is an Italian educational institution that was established in 2010. It owes its academic heritage to the Servite Order, which in 1973 founded the Liceo Linguistico San Pellegrino, and, in 1987, founded the Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori.
Franco Pappalardo La Rosa is an Italian journalist, literary critic, and writer. He graduated from Turin university. He has lived in Turin since 1963. He contributed to cultural pages of Giornale del Sud, L'Umanità and Gazzetta del Popolo, and to many dictionaries, as Dizionario della Letteratura Italiana, Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico-Appendice 1991 and Dizionario dei Capolavori. Nowadays he contributes to many literary magazines, as Hebenon, Chelsea and L'Indice. He edited the publication of some works written by contemporary Italian writers, as Stefano Jacomuzzi, Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Emanuele Occelli, Francesco Granatiero and Angelo Jacomuzzi. He took part in National and International Conferences on figures and aspects of contemporary poetry and fiction. He edits I Colibrì, fiction library between journalism and literature. He is founding member and member of the Board of Governors of the International Association “Amici di Cesare Pavese”.
Marco Onofrio is an Italian writer, essayist and literary critic. In 1995 he graduated with honors in contemporary Italian literature from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", defending a Laurea dissertation on the poet Dino Campana, which was awarded the 'Eugenio Montale' European Prize in 1996. His work deals primarily with modern and contemporary Italian literature, with special emphasis on the twentieth century writers. He studies the relationship of Italian and foreign writers with the city of Rome, and the impact of staying in or visiting Rome in their work. He also carries out activities of militant criticism aimed at the discovery and advancement of new editorial proposals. He has published several volumes of poetry and fiction, written dozens of prefaces and authored hundreds of articles in various Italian newspapers, including "Il Messaggero", "Il Tempo", "Lazio Ieri e Oggi", "Studium", "Nuova Antologia", "La Voce Romana", "L'Immaginazione", "Orlando". Among the works of fiction, he published the experimental novel "Senza cuore", the satirical tales "La scuola degli idioti", "ENERGIE", "Specchio doppio" and the emotional novel "Diario di un padre innamorato" focused on the experience of fatherhood and dedicated to his daughter Valentina. With his dramatic poem "Emporium. Poemetto di civile indignazione" he has anticipated - three years before the pamphlet "Indignez-vous!" (2011) by Stéphane Hessel - the movement of the "Indignados". Drawing inspiration from the poems of "La presenza di Giano", the musician Marcello Appignani has composed the songs collected in the album "Natura viva con oboe, chitarra e violoncello", published by RAI Trade in September 2014.
Serenella Iovino is an Italian cultural and literary theorist, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is considered one of the main environmental philosophers of Italy.
Giorgio Fontana is an Italian writer currently living and working in Milan.
Silvana Grasso is an Italian writer.
Gianfranco Folena was an Italian linguist, philologist, and academic.
Menotti Augusto Serse Lerro is an Italian poet, writer, playwright, librettist and academic. His work explores matters of social alienation and existentialism, the physicality and vulnerability of the body, the interpretation of memories, the meaning of objects and the philosophical importance of human identity. In 2015 he published Donna Giovanna, l'ingannatrice di Salerno, an innovative feminine and bisexual version of the mythical figure of Don Juan, El Burlador de Sevilla, while in 2018 he wrote Il Dottor Faust, an original version of the character of Faust. In addition he is the author of a New Manifesto of Arts and the founder of the Empathic movement (Empathism) that arose in the South of Italy at the beginning of 2020.
Cilento Poetry Prize is an Italian literary prize founded in 2017 by the poet, writer and literary critic Menotti Lerro and awarded annually, in the month of August, in Salento Cilento—"The Poetry Village".
Stefano Bianchi is an Italian astrophysicist who is currently an Associate Professor at the Mathematics and Physics Department of Università degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome, Italy. He is an INAF Associate and an IAU Member.
Enzo Moscato was an Italian writer, playwright and actor.
