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Alberto Moravia

1907 - 1990

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Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [alˈbɛrto ˈpiŋkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: moh-RAH-vee-ə, -⁠RAY-, Italian: [moˈraːvja]), was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista (The Conformist 1947), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alberto Moravia is the 305th most popular writer (down from 285th in 2019), the 445th most popular biography from Italy (down from 380th in 2019) and the 26th most popular Italian Writer.

Alberto Moravia is most famous for his novel "La Ciociara," which tells the story of a woman who is abandoned by her husband and must struggle to provide for her children.

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Among writers, Alberto Moravia ranks 305 out of 7,302. Before him are François de La Rochefoucauld, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Guillaume de Machaut, Arthur Miller, Shams Tabrizi, and Czesław Miłosz. After him are Chrétien de Troyes, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Robert Musil, Claudius Aelianus, J. M. G. Le Clézio, and J. M. Coetzee.

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Among people born in 1907, Alberto Moravia ranks 13. Before him are Katharine Hepburn, Oscar Niemeyer, Alexander R. Todd, W. H. Auden, Mircea Eliade, and J. Hans D. Jensen. After him are Hergé, Maria Branyas, Lee Miller, Baldur von Schirach, Rachel Carson, and Laurence Olivier. Among people deceased in 1990, Alberto Moravia ranks 7. Before him are Rajneesh, Lev Yashin, Greta Garbo, Paulette Goddard, Louis Althusser, and Sammy Davis Jr.. After him are Leonard Bernstein, Yun Posun, Ava Gardner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, B. F. Skinner, and Roald Dahl.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alberto Moravia ranks 445 out of 5,161. Before him are Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (1751), Conrad IV of Germany (1228), Amadeo I of Spain (1845), Simonetta Vespucci (1453), Roberto Benigni (1952), and Antipope John XXIII (1370). After him are Brennus (-500), Pope Callixtus I (180), Maria Luisa of Spain (1745), Cesare Maldini (1932), Tiberius Gracchus (-163), and Pope Benedict VII (910).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Alberto Moravia ranks 26. Before him are Dario Fo (1926), Primo Levi (1919), Sallust (-86), Ludovico Ariosto (1474), Marcus Terentius Varro (-116), and Luigi Pirandello (1867). After him are Christine de Pizan (1365), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896), Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863), Theocritus (-315), Lorenzo Valla (1407), and Cornelius Nepos (-100).

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