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Vittorio Sereni

Died in 1983

Vittorio Sereni was born in 1913 in Luino, on Lake Maggiore. A graduate of the University of Milan in 1936, he published his first collection in 1941. An officer during the Second World War, he was taken prisoner in 1943 and spent the end of the war in camps in North Africa, away from the Resistance. A teacher and critic, he was then, until 1976, literary director of the publisher Mondadori, translated poetry and died in 1983.

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