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Leonardo Sciascia
Leonardo Sciascia was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician. Some of his works have been made into films, including Porte Aperte, Cadaveri Eccellenti, Todo Modo and Il giorno della civetta.
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Born 8 January 1921 · Died 20 November 1989 · Q317142
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2017· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: The Novel as Investigation: Leonardo Sciascia, Dacia Maraini, and Antonio Tabucchi
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-11-20.
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Bagutta Prize (1986).
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1979· 3 entries
Sciascia was elected for the Radical Party in the House of Deputies and became a member of the committee of the House for the investigation into Moro's kidnapping, which stated that there was a certain amount of negligen
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Career landmark: Member of the European Parliament (1979–1979).
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Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1979–1983).
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1977· 1 entry
Resigned from PCI, due to his opposition to any dealing with Christian Democracy (DC)
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1971· 1 entry
Sciascia returned again to mystery with Il contesto (The Challenge), which inspired Francesco Rosi's movie Cadaveri eccellenti (1976; Illustrious Corpses)
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1969· 1 entry
Began a collaboration with Il Corriere della Sera
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1965· 1 entry
Wrote the play L'onorevole (The Honorable), a denunciation of the complicities between government and the mafia
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Crotone Prize for The Day of the Owl (1962).
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1961· 1 entry
Published Il giorno della civetta (The Day of the Owl), one of his most famous novels, about the Mafia, and in 1963, the historical novel Il consiglio d'Egitto (The Council of Egypt), set in 18th-century Palermo
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1957· 1 entry
Where he struck up a lifelong friendship with Sicilian artist, Bruno Caruso
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1956· 1 entry
Published Le parrocchie di Regalpetra (The Parishes of Regalpetra), an autobiographic novel inspired by his experience as an elementary school teacher in his home town
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1954· 1 entry
Sciascia began collaborating with literature and ethnology magazines published by Salvatore Sciascia in Caltanissetta
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1952· 1 entry
By La Sicilia, il suo cuore (Sicily, its Heart), his first and only poetry collection, illustrated by Emilio Greco
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1948· 1 entry
His brother committed suicide, an event which profoundly impacted Sciascia
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1944· 1 entry
Married Maria Andronico, an elementary school teacher in Racalmuto
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1935· 1 entry
His family moved to Caltanissetta, where Sciascia studied under Vitaliano Brancati, who would become his model in writing and introduce him to French novelists
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-01-08.
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