Manlio Cancogni

Manlio Cancogni was born in Bologna in 1916. After a brief period teaching philosophy, he began his career as a journalist and writer. He has worked for the most important Italian papers, among which the Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, L’Europeo, l’Espresso. From the Sixties to the Eighties he was given numerous literary acknowledgements like the Strega Prize in 1973 for the novel Allegri, gioventù and the Viareggio Prize in 1985 for Quella strana felicità. In 2010 he was awarded by the Italian Pen Club.