Pier Paolo Pasolini
Playwright, Film director
1922 – 1975
Who was Pier Paolo Pasolini?
Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure. He demonstrated a unique and extraordinary cultural versatility, becoming a highly controversial figure in the process. While his work remains controversial to this day, in the years since his death Pasolini has come to be valued by many as a visionary thinker and a major figure in Italian literature and art. American literary critic Harold Bloom considers Pasolini to be a major European poet and a major voice in 20th-century poetry, including his works in his collection of the Western canon.
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- Born
- Mar 5, 1922
Bologna - Also known as
- P.P. Pasolini
- Paul Pasolini
- Pierpaolo Pasolini
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Ninetto Davoli
(1963 - 1975/11/02)
- Ninetto Davoli
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- Italian people
- Nationality
- Italy
- Kingdom of Italy
- Profession
- Education
- University of Bologna
- Lived in
- Bologna
- Died
- Nov 2, 1975
Ostia - Resting place
- Casarsa della Delizia
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on July 23, 2013
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