biography
pronunciation:
[dohlchee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1924–97)
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| biography:
| Sociologist, social worker, and writer, ‘the Gandhi of Sicily’, born in Sesana, NE Italy. He qualified as an architect, but decided to fight poverty in Sicily, building schools and community centres in the poorest areas, helped by social workers from many European countries. Opposition to his work led to his imprisonment on two occasions. Although not a Communist, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1956. His work was central to his poems Voci dalla città di Dio (1951) and Poesie (1956), and his essays Banditi a Partinico (1955), Spreco (1960), and Non esiste il silenzio (1974). |
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