WRITER

Corrado Alvaro

1895 - 1956

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Corrado Alvaro (15 April 1895 – 11 June 1956) was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays. He often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria. His first success was Gente in Aspromonte (Revolt in Aspromonte), which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Corrado Alvaro is the 3,407th most popular writer (down from 3,374th in 2019), the 2,948th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,916th in 2019) and the 203rd most popular Italian Writer.

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Among writers, Corrado Alvaro ranks 3,407 out of 7,302. Before him are William of Jumièges, Nazik Al-Malaika, Isabella di Morra, Charles de Saint-Évremond, C. S. Forester, and Alessandro Tassoni. After him are Antonio García Gutiérrez, Ephraim Chambers, Hiromi Kawakami, Jean-François Revel, Johann Most, and Lillian Hellman.

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Among people born in 1895, Corrado Alvaro ranks 158. Before him are Maksym Rylsky, Roza Eskenazi, Hari Singh, Bill W., Paul Gorguloff, and John J. McCloy. After him are Rudolph Minkowski, Jankel Adler, Fedor Ozep, Morris Kirksey, Walter Bedell Smith, and Immanuel Velikovsky. Among people deceased in 1956, Corrado Alvaro ranks 120. Before him are Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg, Mikhail Tereshchenko, Zoltán Halmay, Leo Baeck, Tommy Johnson, and Aino Kallas. After him are Ágnes Esterházy, John Geiger, Touria Chaoui, Truxtun Hare, Johannes Gabriel Granö, and E. A. Dupont.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Corrado Alvaro ranks 2,948 out of 5,161. Before him are Galeazzo Alessi (1512), David Rizzio (1533), Fabiola Gianotti (1960), Romeo Benetti (1945), Fernando Tambroni (1901), and Alessandro Tassoni (1565). After him are Gualtiero Bassetti (1942), Francesco Molin (1575), Amedeo Biavati (1915), Antonio Cassano (1982), Michele Steno (1331), and Rose McGowan (1973).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Corrado Alvaro ranks 203. Before him are Suso Cecchi d'Amico (1914), Giosafat Barbaro (1413), Mario Soldati (1906), Susanna Tamaro (1957), Augusto Genina (1892), and Alessandro Tassoni (1565). After him are Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526), Giuseppe Parini (1729), Erri De Luca (1950), Carlo Rosselli (1899), Ennio Flaiano (1910), and Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso (1808).

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