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Silone

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Si·lo·ne  (s-ln, s-ln), Ignazio 1900-1978.
Italian novelist whose best-known works, Bread and Wine (1937) and The Seed Beneath the Snow (1941), were written while he was in exile from the Fascist regime in Italy.

Silone (Italian) [siˈloːne]
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(Biographies / Silone, Ignazio (1900-1978) M, Italian, WRITING: writer) Ignazio (iɲˈɲattsjo). 1900-78, Italian writer, noted for his humanitarian socialistic novels, Fontamara (1933) and Bread and Wine (1937)


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He singles out for high praise Randolph Bourne, Dwight Macdonald, George Orwell, and Irving Howe among the English speakers, Albert Camus, Nicola Chiaromonte, and Ignazio Silone among the Europeans.
Similarly, a few years ago, the world was shocked to learn that famous Italian writer Ignazio Silone had, in his youth, collaborated with the fascist police.
But she also thrives on work by a remarkable array of classical and contemporary novelists and others: Silone, Wolfe, Bellow, Whitman, Orwell, DuBois, Simone Weil, and many more.
 
 
 
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