1. Corrado Alvaro was an Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays and plays.
10 Facts About Corrado Alvaro
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Corrado Alvaro often used the verismo style to describe the hopeless poverty in his native Calabria.
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Corrado Alvaro was born in San Luca, a small village in the southernmost region of Calabria.
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Corrado Alvaro's father Antonio was a primary school teacher and founded an evening school for farmers and illiterate shepherds.
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Corrado Alvaro graduated with a degree in literature in 1919 at the University of Milan and began working as a journalist and literary critic for two daily newspapers, Il Resto di Carlino of Bologna and the Corriere della Sera of Milan.
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Corrado Alvaro served as an officer in the Italian army during World War I After being wounded in both arms, he spent a long time in military hospitals.
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Corrado Alvaro was forced to leave Italy and during the 1930s he travelled widely in western Europe, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union.
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Corrado Alvaro again worked for prominent daily newspapers as a special correspondent, theatre and film critic, and editor.
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Corrado Alvaro was elected secretary of the Italian Association of Writers in 1947, a post he held until his death in Rome in 1956.
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Corrado Alvaro is noted for his realistic, epic depictions of the Italian poor.