Writer Raffaele La Capria has died at the age of 99. Winner of the 1962 Strega Prize for his masterpiece "Feriti a Morte," he was born in Naples in 1922 and had lived in Rome since 1950.
Born in Naples on 3 October 1922, after graduating in law from the University of Naples Federico II in 1947, he lived in France, England and the United States, moving to Rome in 1950.
In 1957 he attended a Harvard International Seminar of Literature. Historic pen of the cultural pages of the Corriere della Sera and in 1990 he was co-director of the literary magazine Nuovi Argomenti, La Capria was also the author of radio dramas for Rai and a screenwriter for the cinema.
With the friend Francesco Rosi he had written the film 'Hands on the city' who won the Golden Lion at Venice Festival in 1963. Author and co-screenwriter of Rosi for other films, including 'Uomini contro' (1970), he also collaborated with Lina Wertmüller for 'Saturday, Sunday and Monday' (1990) and 'Ferdinando and Carolina) (1999).
Voice and soul of Naples, in his works he sang its beauties and asperities. His most famous work 'Wounded to Death' It is considered by critics and readers to be a classic of twentieth-century Italian literature.
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