Ignazio Silone

Ignazio Silone (died 1978), born Secondo Tranquilli at Pescina, in the Abruzzi, on 1 May 1900, was active in socialist ranks from a young age. In 1921 he took part in the founding of the Italian Communist Party, then left it in the early 1930s, after his break with Stalin. A refugee in Switzerland, he became a writer there, and his anti-fascist novels made him famous throughout the world during the Second World War. He died in Geneva on 22 August 1978.

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• NovelFontamaraIgnazio Silone · 1933Literature