Corrado Alvaro
Novelist, Author
1895 – 1956
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Who was Corrado Alvaro?
Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describes the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte, which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.
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- Born
- Apr 15, 1895
San Luca - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Laura Babini
(1918/04/08 - )
- Laura Babini
- Nationality
- Italy
- Kingdom of Italy
- Profession
- Education
- University of Milan
- Died
- Jun 11, 1956
Rome
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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