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Franco Pappalardo La Rosa (born in Giarre, 15 September 1941) is an Italian journalist, literary critic, and writer. He graduated from Turin university. He has lived in Turin since 1963. He contributed to cultural pages of Giornale del Sud, L'Umanità and Gazzetta del Popolo, and to many dictionaries, as Dizionario della Letteratura Italiana (Milano, Tea, 1989), Grande Dizionario Enciclopedico-Appendice 1991 (Torino, Utet, 1991) and Dizionario dei Capolavori (Milano, Garzanti, 1994). Nowadays he contributes to many literary magazines, as Hebenon, Chelsea (New York) and L'Indice. He edited the publication of some works written by contemporary Italian writers, as Stefano Jacomuzzi, Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, Emanuele Occelli, Francesco Granatiero and Angelo Jacomuzzi. He took part in National and International Conferences on figures and aspects of contemporary poetry and fiction. He edits I Colibrì (Edizioni dell'Orso), fiction library between journalism and literature. He is founding member and member of the Board of Governors of the International Association “Amici di Cesare Pavese”.

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