Erri De Luca
Erri de Luca, Italy’s most widely read living author, was born in Naples in 1950. In 1968, he left Naples for Rome where he became a member of Lotta Continua until 1976. He worked as a laborer in Turin, Naples, France, Milan, Catania, and Rome. He was a volunteer worker in Tanzania and ran humanitarian aide convoys during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In the spring of 1999, he was in Belgrade to protest NATO bombing of the city. He considers aerial bombing of cities an act of terrorism. He...
