Mario Soldati

Mario Soldati (died 1999) was born in Turin on 17 November 1906, into a well-off Turinese bourgeois family. A pupil of the Jesuits at the Istituto Sociale, he obtained a degree in art history, then taught at Columbia in the United States from 1929 to 1931. Back in Italy, he entered the cinema and directed numerous films, without ceasing to publish novels. He received the Strega Prize in 1954 and died on 19 June 1999, aged ninety-two.

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• NarrativeAmerica primo amoreMario Soldati · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature