Corrado Alvaro

✶April 15, 1895

†June 11, 1956

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About their life

Corrado Alvaro 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, which examined the exploitation of rural peasants by greedy landowners in Calabria, and is considered by many critics to be his masterpiece.

Italian journalist and writer of novels, short stories, screenplays, and plays (1895–1956)

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