Alberto Bevilacqua

Place: Parma

Born: 1934

Death: 2013

Biography:

Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. He was born on June 27, 1934, in Parma, Italy, and died on September 9, 2013, in Rome, Italy. Bevilacqua began his career as a writer in the early 1950s, and his first collection of stories, 'The Dust on the Grass', was published in 1955. He also worked as a filmmaker, directing seven films between 1970 and 1999. His 1970 film 'La califfa' was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. Bevilacqua was also a poet, and his writings have been translated throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil, China, and Japan. In 2010, his seven 'stories' were included in the Novels volume of the prestigious series 'I Meridiani.' Bevilacqua died in Rome on September 9, 2013, from cardiac arrest. He had been hospitalized since October 11, 2012, for heart failure.