Elio Vittorini

Italian writer, literary translator and editor.

Born July 23rd, 1908 in Syracuse. [ref]

Died February 12th, 1966 at 57 years old in Milan (stomach cancer). [ref]

Occupations
editor, linguist, opinion journalist, partisan, translator, writer
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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi