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Piero Gadda Conti
Piero Gadda Conti
Born	13 February 1902; Milan, Italy
Died	22 January 1999 (aged 96); Milan, Italy
Occupation(s)	Novelist, film critic

Piero Gadda Conti (13 February 1902 – 22 January 1999) was an Italian novelist and film critic.

Born in Milan, the cousin of Carlo Emilio Gadda, he debuted as a novelist in 1924 with L' estusiastica estate.^[1] He got his breakout in 1930 with the novel Mozzo, and in 1970 he won the Bagutta Prize with the novel La paura.^[1] A film critic for the magazine La Fiera Letteraria and for the newspaper Il Popolo,^[1] Gadda Conti was a jury member of the Venice Film Festival five times, in 1950, 1951, 1955, 1958, and 1963.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Arturo Colombo (25 January 1999). "Gadda Conti un cuore lombardo". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
^ Enzo Di Martino. The history of the Venice Biennale: 1895- 2005 : visual arts, architecture, cinema, dance, music, theatre. Papiro Arte, 2005. ISBN 8890110449.

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Piero Gadda Conti at IMDb

[bio-1] Arturo Colombo (25 January 1999). "Gadda Conti un cuore lombardo". Corriere della Sera. Retrieved 28 June 2015.

[2] Enzo Di Martino. The history of the Venice Biennale: 1895- 2005 : visual arts, architecture, cinema, dance, music, theatre. Papiro Arte, 2005. ISBN 8890110449.

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Piero Gadda Conti
Born	13 February 1902 (1902-02-13) Milan, Italy
Died	22 January 1999 (1999-01-23) (aged 96) Milan, Italy
Occupation(s)	Novelist, film critic

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