Giorgio Manganelli

Giorgio Manganelli (1922–1990) was an Italian writer, journalist, translator and literary critic, and one of the leading theorists of the neoavanguardia group Gruppo 63. He taught English literature in Rome and worked as an editorial consultant for publishers including Einaudi, Mondadori and Adelphi. His experimental, baroque prose includes Hilarotragoedia (1964) and Centuria: cento piccoli romanzi fiume (1979), which won the Premio Viareggio. He also translated Edgar Allan Poe, T. S. Eliot, Henry James and Ezra Pound into Italian.