Elio Vittorini

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Born	July 23, 1908 • Syracuse • Italy
Died	February 13, 1966 (aged 57) • Milan • Italy
Notable Works	“Conversation in Sicily” • “Diario in pubblico” • “Solaria” • “The Red Carnation” • “The Twilight of the Elephant” • “Uomini e no”
Movement / Style	Neorealism

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Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Martin Opitz

German poet

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Japanese author

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Anna Banti

Italian author and critic

Giorgio Manganelli

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

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Alexander Pope

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Wole Soyinka

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Sir Stephen Spender

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Es’kia Mphahlele

South African writer

Artur Lundkvist

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Babette Deutsch

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Massimo Bontempelli

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Vittorio Sereni

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