Piergiorgio Bellocchio (15 December 1931 – 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer, literary critic and journalist.
Piergiorgio Bellocchio | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 December 1931 |
| Died | 18 April 2022 (aged 90) Piacenza, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer |
Life and career
editThe brother of the film director Marco, Bellocchio became first known as the founder and editor of the left-wing anti-Marxist political magazine Quaderni piacentini (Italian: "Piacenza Notebooks", 1962-1984).[1][2] After the closure of Quaderni he founded and directed the magazine Diario (1985-1993).[1][2] He was the first editor-in-chief of the far-left Lotta Continua newspaper, and he also collaborated as a columnist with other publications including Panorama and L'Unità.[1]
Bellocchio published books with Mondadori, Rizzoli, Einaudi, Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore, and directed the publishing house Gulliver.[1] His style has been described as "a mixture of satire, aphorisms and glimpses of narrative and reality, expressed in an always very clear writing".[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Addio a Piergiorgio Bellocchio, intellettuale militante". Rai News 24 (in Italian). 18 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ a b Saibene, Alberto (19 April 2022). "Piergiorgio Bellocchio: al di sotto della mischia". Doppiozero (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2022.
- ^ Raja, Roberto (19 April 2022). "L'autobiografismo critico di Piergiorgio Bellocchio". Il Foglio (in Italian). Retrieved 22 April 2022.