Corrado Alvaro

Corrado Alvaro (died 1956) was born on 15 April 1895 at San Luca, in Calabria, the son of a schoolteacher. An officer during the First World War, he was wounded at the front. A journalist for daily newspapers in Bologna and Milan, he later contributed to the weekly Il Mondo, which opposed fascism; the regime's hostility led him to live for a time in Paris. He also made a journey to the Soviet Union in 1934 and died in Rome on 11 June 1956.

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• DiaryQuasi una vitaCorrado Alvaro · 1950not translated into EnglishLiterature