Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese (died 1950) was born in Santo Stefano Belbo, in the hills of Piedmont, on 9 September 1908, and grew up in Turin. A pupil of Augusto Monti at the Liceo d'Azeglio, he wrote a thesis on Walt Whitman and translated many American and English novelists. Arrested in 1935, he was confined in Calabria, at Brancaleone. He then worked at the publisher Einaudi as an editor and translator, received the Strega Prize in 1950 and took his own life in Turin in August of the same year.

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• NovelThe Moon and the BonfiresLa luna e i falòCesare Pavese · 1950Literature