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Biagi
A major voice in Italian journalism, this prolific writer spent decades turning interviews, reporting, and television work into books that reached a wide audience. His career mixed sharp political attention with a gift for telling real-life stories in a direct, human way.
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The Centaurians: a novel
by Biagi
About the author
Born in Lizzano in Belvedere, Italy, in 1920, Enzo Biagi began his journalism career in Bologna and went on to become one of the best-known figures in Italian media. Alongside his newspaper and television work, he was also a remarkably productive author, writing around eighty books over the course of a long career.
His writing often drew on the same strengths that made him a prominent interviewer and broadcaster: curiosity, clarity, and a close interest in public life. In 1987, he won the Premio Bancarella for Il boss è solo, a book based on interviews with former Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta.
Biagi remained active for decades and received major journalism honors, including the Saint Vincent prize and the Ischia International Journalism Award. He died in Milan in 2007, but he is still remembered as one of the most recognizable and influential Italian journalists and writers of the twentieth century.