Piero Chiara

Piero Chiara (March 13, 1913 - December 31, 1986) was an Italian writer.

He was born in Luino, on Lake Maggiore (northern Italy) into a family of Sicilian origin. Sought by the Fascist milice during World War II, he fled to Switzerland in 1944. He returned to Italy two years later, starting the activity of writer.

His most famous work is La stanza del vescovo of 1976, which was turned into a film by Dino Risi soon afterwards.

He died in Varese in 1986.


Recipients of the Bagutta Prize
  • Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927)
  • Giovanni Comisso (1928)
  • Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
  • Gino Rocca (1930)
  • Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931)
  • Leonida Rèpaci (1932)
  • Raul Radice (1933)
  • Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934)
  • Enrico Sacchetti (1935)
  • Silvio Negro (1936)
  • Dario Ortolani (1947)
  • Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948)
  • Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
  • Vitaliano Brancati (1950)
  • Indro Montanelli (1951)
  • Francesco Serantini (1952)
  • Leonardo Borghese (1953)
  • Giuseppe Marotta (1954)
  • Alfonso Gatto (1955)
  • Giuseppe Lanza (1956)
  • Pier Angelo Soldini (1957)
  • Lorenzo Montano (1958)
  • Italo Calvino (1959)
  • Enrico Emanuelli (1960)
  • Giorgio Vigolo (1961)
  • Giuseppe Dessì (1962)
  • Ottiero Ottieri (1963)
  • Tommaso Landolfi (1964)
  • Biagio Marin (1965)
  • Manlio Cancogni (1966)
  • Primo Levi (1967)
  • Piero Chiara (1968)
  • Niccolò Tucci (1969)
  • Alberto Vigevani (1970)
  • Pietro Gadda Conti (1971)
  • Anna Banti (1972)
  • Sergio Solmi (1973)
  • Gianni Celati (1974)
  • Enzo Forcella (1975)
  • Mario Soldati (1976)
  • Sandro Penna (1977)
  • Carlo Cassola (1878)
  • Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)
  • Giovanni Macchia (1980)
  • Pietro Citati (1981)
  • Vittorio Sereni (1982)
  • Giorgio Bassani (1983)
  • Natalia Ginzburg (1984)
  • Francesca Duranti (1985)
  • Leonardo Sciascia (1986)
  • Claudio Magris (1987)
  • Luciano Erba (1988)
  • Luigi Meneghello (1989)
  • Fleur Jaeggy (1990)
  • Livio Garzanti (1991)
  • Giorgio Bocca (1992)
  • Giovanni Giudici (1993)
  • Alberto Arbasino (1994)
  • Daniele Del Giudice (1995)
  • Raffaello Baldini (1996)
  • Sergio Ferrero (1997)
  • Giovanni Raboni (1998)
  • Fabio Carpi (1999)
  • Andrea Zanzotto
  • Mariano Bargellini (2000)
  • Serena Vitale (2001)
  • Roberto Calasso
  • Giorgio Orelli (2002)
  • Michele Mari
  • Edoardo Sanguineti
  • Eva Cantarella (2003)
  • Franco Cordero (2004)
  • Rosetta Loy (2005)
  • Filippo Tuena
  • Eugenio Borgna (2006)
  • Alessandro Spina (2007)
  • Andrej Longo (2008)
  • Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
  • Corrado Stajano (2010)
  • Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2011)
Lake Maggiore (Lago Maggiore, Verbano)
Italy
Lombardy
Piedmont
Switzerland
Canton Ticino
Settlements
  • Angera
  • Arona
  • Ascona
  • Baveno
  • Belgirate
  • Besozzo
  • Brebbia
  • Brezzo di Bedero
  • Brissago
  • Cannero Riviera
  • Cannobio
  • Castelletto sopra Ticino
  • Castelveccana
  • Caviano
  • Dormelletto
  • Germignaga
  • Gerra (Gambarogno)
  • Ghiffa
  • Ispra
  • Laveno-Mombello
  • Leggiuno
  • Lesa
  • Locarno
  • Luino
  • Maccagno
  • Magadino
  • Meina
  • Minusio
  • Monvalle
  • Muralto
  • Oggebbio
  • Piazzogna
  • Pino sulla Sponda del Lago Maggiore
  • Porto Valtravaglia
  • Ranco
  • Ronco sopra Ascona
  • San Nazzaro
  • Sant'Abbondio
  • Sesto Calende
  • Stresa
  • Tenero-Contra
  • Tronzano Lago Maggiore
  • Verbania
  • Vira

Islands
  • Isole Borromee
  • Brissago Islands
  • Castelli di Cannero
  • Isolino Partegora
Rivers
  • Boesio
  • Cannobino
  • Giona
  • Maggia
  • Margorabbia
  • San Bernardino
  • Stronetta
  • Ticino
  • Toce
  • Tresa
  • Verzasca
Landmarks
  • Giardino Botanico Alpinia
  • Sacro Monte di Ghiffa
  • Monte Verità
  • Villa Taranto
Films
  • La stanza del vescovo
People
  • Arialdo
  • House of Borromeo
  • Piero Chiara
  • Dario Fo
  • Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
  • Vittorio Sereni
  • Cristoforo Solari
Authority control
  • VIAF: 56626006
Persondata
Name Chiara, Piero
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Date of birth March 13, 1913
Place of birth
Date of death December 31, 1986
Place of death