biography
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Silone, Ignazio
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pseudonym of Secondo Tranquilli
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pronunciation:
[silohnay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1900–78)
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| biography:
| Novelist and journalist, born in Aquilo, EC Italy. He studied in Abruzzi and Rome. Active in the struggle against Fascism, he settled in Switzerland in 1931, returning to Italy in 1944, and edited the newspaper Avanti. Fontamara (1933, but rewritten after World War 2) describes the interplay between the peasants of Abruzzi and their Fascist governors. Later novels include Pane e vino (1937, Bread and Wine) and Il seme sotto la neve (1941, The Seed Beneath the Snow). |
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