Carlo Cassola

Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 – 29 January 1987) was an influential Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film (named the same as the novel) by Luigi Comencini in 1963.

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