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Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter

Vitaliano Brancati (Italian pronunciation:[vitaˈljaːnobraŋˈkaːti]; 24 July 1907 – 25 September 1954) was an Italian novelist, dramatist, poet and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in Pachino, Syracuse, Brancati studied in Catania, where he graduated in letters and where he spent most of his life.^[1] While he started writing at a young age and at 25 years old he was already the author of six books, which were largely influenced by fascist ideals and which were later rejected by the same Brancati, critics tend to set the starting point of his career in 1935, when he released the collection of short stories In search of a cause.^[1] Brancati got his first and probably major success in 1941, with the novel Don Giovanni in Sicilia, a vibrant and humorous portrait of the Sicilian temperament.^[1]

In 1944 he wrote the novel Gli anni perduti ("The Lost Years"), a bold satir