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Corrado Alvaro was born on April 15, 1895, in San Luca, a small village in the southernmost region of Calabria. His father Antonio was a primary school teacher, who founded an evening school for farmers and illiterate shepherds.
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Corrado Alvaro was born on April 15, 1895, in San Luca, a small village in the southernmost region of Calabria. His father Antonio was a primary school teacher, who founded an evening school for farmers and illiterate shepherds.
Alvaro was educated at Jesuit boarding schools in Rome and Umbria. He then graduated from the University of Milan in 1919 with a degree in literature and philosophy.
Having published his first book of poetry in 1911, at the age of sixteen, Alvaro served in the Italian infantry as an officer during World War I and was wounded in the face. He began his career as a journalist in 1916, working as a reporter and literary critic for the newspapers II resto di Carlini of Bologna and II Corriere della sera of Milan while attending college.
From 1921, when he graduated from the University of Milan with a degree in literature and philosophy, until 1926, when the paper was suppressed, Alvaro worked for the anti-Fascist weekly II Mondo. He travelled for several years throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union during the following decade, returning to Italy during World War II, but was forced to live hiding until the fall of Mussolini.
He briefly edited the newspaper II Popolo di Roma, and after the war wrote articles and essays, as well as literary pieces and criticism, for various newspapers and journals.
He then served as the secretary for the Italian Association of Writers from 1947 until his death in 1956.
Corrado Alvaro is considered an important voice in southern Italian literature. His experimentation with verismo, or literary realism, reflected his sense of the alienation of the individual in the twentieth century. His most important work is widely considered to have been done in his youth, with Gente in Aspromonte (translated into English as Revolt in Aspromonte) singled out as a classic of its kind.
Alvaro’s other novels include Vent’anni (1930; “Twenty Years”), Itinerario Italiano (1933; “Italian Route”), L’età breve (1946; “The Brief Era”), and Tutto è accaduto (1961; “All Has Happened”).
Alvaro also wrote the verse collection Poesie grigioverdi (1917; “Green-Gray Poems”), the critical essay La lunga notte di Medea (1994; The Long Night of Medea), and the memoirs Quasi una vita (1950; “Almost a Life”) and Ultimo Diario (1959; “The Final Diary”).
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