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Carlo Cassola

1917 - 1987

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Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 – 29 January 1987) was an Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film of the same name by Luigi Comencini in 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Carlo Cassola is the 5,541st most popular writer (down from 5,309th in 2024), the 3,892nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,775th in 2019) and the 270th most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Carlo Cassola ranks 5,541 out of 7,302. Before him are Wang Meng, Steven Moffat, Marina Lewycka, Madeline Miller, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Élie Blanchard. After him are Armand Lanoux, Johan Falkberget, Günter de Bruyn, Gorch Fock, Sergei Lukyanenko, and Léon Frapié.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Carlo Cassola ranks 288. Before him are Nils Täpp, Ibrahim Shams, Freddie Francis, Carl Forssell, Władysław Rubin, and Ottorino Volonterio. After him are Alice Pearce, Tony Cliff, Lassi Parkkinen, Pavel Solovyov, Pyotr Demichev, and Barbara Burke. Among people deceased in 1987, Carlo Cassola ranks 213. Before him are Milorad Arsenijević, Julien Darui, Musa Gareyev, Alexis Chantraine, Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, and Hannelore Schroth. After him are Håkan Malmrot, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Charles Stark Draper, Marcos Calderón, Stanislav Lusk, and József Kovács.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Carlo Cassola ranks 3,893 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Severi (1879), Alan Sorrenti (1950), Loris Capirossi (1973), Giuseppe Savoldi (1947), Manuela Di Centa (1963), and Regina Bianchi (1921). After him are Hicetas (null), Cosimo Pinto (1943), Fernando De Napoli (1964), Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (1940), Marco Di Vaio (1976), and Serafino Dubois (1817).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Carlo Cassola ranks 270. Before him are Edoardo Sanguineti (1930), Federigo Tozzi (1883), Mario Luzi (1914), Anna Maria Ortese (1914), Nino Martoglio (1870), and Federico De Roberto (1861). After him are Pietro Citati (1930), Riccardo Bacchelli (1891), Niccolò Ammaniti (1966), Vincenzo Consolo (1933), Raffaele La Capria (1922), and Alfredo Panzini (1863).

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