Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta. He is one of the greatest literary figures in the European literature of the 20th century.
Gabriella Sica is an Italian poet.
Caterina Davinio is an Italian poet, novelist and new media artist. She is the author of works of digital art, net.art, video art and was the creator of Italian Net-poetry in 1998.
Video poetry is poetry in video form. It is also known as videopoetry, video-visual poetry, poetronica, poetry video, media poetry, or Cin(E)-Poetry depending on the length and content of the video work and the techniques employed in its creation.
Lamberto Pignotti is an Italian poet, writer and visual artist.
Antonio Porta was an Italian author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Beppe Costa is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher.
Michele Sorice is an Italian sociologist and political scientist known for his work in the fields of political communication, political science and critical media studies. He is the author of over 25 books and 50 articles.
Carlo Bordini was an Italian poet. He was born in Rome. His poetry had been translated into Spanish, French, and Swedish.
Franco Fortini was the pseudonym of Franco Lattes, an Italian poet, writer, translator, essayist, literary critic and Marxist intellectual.
Daniele Gaglianone is an Italian director.
Giovanni Fontana is an Italian poet, performance artist, author and publisher.
Gianfranco Pannone is an Italian film and television director.
Francesco Benozzo is an Italian poet, musician and philologist. He works as a Research Fellow in Philology at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Marco Maria Gazzano was an Italian film and media art theoretician and an exhibition curator.
Barbara Carle is a French-American poet, critic, translator and Italianist. She is Professor Emerita of Italian at California State University Sacramento.
Mauro Cardi is an Italian composer.
Franco Loi was an Italian poet, writer, and essayist. He was born in Genoa, and died in Milan, aged 90. He made his debut in 1973 as a poet using dialect and had a good success with the work I cart, and the following year, 1974, with Poems of love. In 1975, the poet proved to have reached complete maturity of expression with the poem Stròlegh, published by Einaudi with a preface by Franco Fortini.
Corrado Govoni. was an Italian poet. His work dealt with modern urban representations, the states of memory, nostalgia, and longing, using an expressive and evocative style of writing.
Michele Sambin is an Italian theatre director and artist.
