Marco Belpoliti


Marco Belpoliti is an Italian writer, essayist and critic, who contributes regularly to La Repubblica and L'Espresso, and is currently a professor at the University of Bergamo. He is the author of many books and edited the [Giulio Giulio Einaudi Editore|Einaudi Editore|Einaudi] edition of the complete works of Primo Levi.

Biography

Marco Belpoliti was born in Reggio Emilia in 1954 and graduated from the University of Bologna in 1978 having completed a thesis on Semiotics supervised by Umberto Eco. His first published work was his novel Confine: vite immaginarie del clown in 1986. He now teaches Sociology of literature and Italian literature at the University of Bergamo. He is co-editor of the literary magazine Riga, which he co-founded in 1991. Since 1998 he has been a regular contributor to La Stampa and, from 2000, has produced a weekly literary review column to L'Espresso. His contributions to La Repubblica began in 2016.

Editor

Effetto Emilia, Officina immagine, Bologna, 1981Mardi: rien. Existe: : Esistenzialismi, Reggio Emilia, Tecnograf, 1982