Beppe Fenoglio

Beppe Fenoglio (died 1963) was born in Alba, in Piedmont, on 1 March 1922. Called up in 1943, he had not finished officer school when the armistice came; he then joined the partisans of the Langhe and fought until the end of the war. He wrote his books while working for a wine firm in Alba and published only two of them in his lifetime. He died of cancer in Turin on 18 February 1963, aged forty.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelJohnny the PartisanIl partigiano JohnnyBeppe Fenoglio · 1968Literature