For too long, says Iris Origo in this intimate study of a writer and his work, Ignazio Silone was “undervalued both as a thinker and a writer” in his Italian homeland.Today at sixty-six, the ...

Bitter Spring. A Life of Ignazio Silone. Stanislao G. Pugliese. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 426 pp., $35 “Fontamara” and “Bread and Wine,” Ignazio Silone’s passionate novels of peasant life ...

The Italian writer Ignazio Silone (1900-1978) is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, as the author of the Abruzzo Trilogy: Fontamara (1930), Bread and Wine (1936), and The Seed ...

Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone By Stanislao Pugliese (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 426 pp., $35) In June 1950, Ignazio Silone and Arthur Koestler, two of the most prominent anti-communist ...

The celebrated Italian author, Ignazio Silone, 69, will be awarded the biennial “Jerusalem Prize.” an award of the Jerusalem municipality presented in connection with the international book fair.

Ignazio Silone was one of Italy’s most respected 20th-century novelists. His best-known work, Fontamara, is a dramatic account of peasant life in the Abruzzi, where he was born in 1900.He was always a ...

DARINA Silone, who died on July 25 in Rome at age 86, was the Dublin-born wife of a famous Italian novelist and noted anti-fascist who was accused in recent times of spying for the fascists.