Piergiorgio Bellocchio | |
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Born | 15 December 1931 |
Died | 18 April 2022 Piacenza, Italy | (aged 90)
Occupation | Writer |
Piergiorgio Bellocchio (15 December 1931 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer, literary critic and journalist.
The brother of the film director Marco, Bellocchio became first known as the founder and editor of the left-wing anti-Marxist political magazine Quaderni piacentini (Italian: "Piacenza Notebooks", 1962-1984). [1] [2] After the closure of Quaderni he founded and directed the magazine Diario (1985-1993). [1] [2] He was the first editor-in-chief of the far-left Lotta Continua newspaper, and he also collaborated as a columnist with other publications including Panorama and L'Unità. [1]
Bellocchio published books with Mondadori, Rizzoli, Einaudi, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, and directed the publishing house Gulliver. [1] His style has been described as "a mixture of satire, aphorisms and glimpses of narrative and reality, expressed in an always very clear writing". [3]
Piergiorgio Bellocchio | |
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Born | 15 December 1931 |
Died | 18 April 2022 Piacenza, Italy | (aged 90)
Occupation | Writer |
Piergiorgio Bellocchio (15 December 1931 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer, literary critic and journalist.
The brother of the film director Marco, Bellocchio became first known as the founder and editor of the left-wing anti-Marxist political magazine Quaderni piacentini (Italian: "Piacenza Notebooks", 1962-1984). [1] [2] After the closure of Quaderni he founded and directed the magazine Diario (1985-1993). [1] [2] He was the first editor-in-chief of the far-left Lotta Continua newspaper, and he also collaborated as a columnist with other publications including Panorama and L'Unità. [1]
Bellocchio published books with Mondadori, Rizzoli, Einaudi, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, and directed the publishing house Gulliver. [1] His style has been described as "a mixture of satire, aphorisms and glimpses of narrative and reality, expressed in an always very clear writing". [3]