Life As An Italian Author
By 1953 he was residing in London earning a living as a translator and a commentator for the BBC. After a short return to Buenos Aires in 1954 he once again set sail for Italy where he would settle for good three years later. From now on most of his works, some of his most celebrated, would be written in Italian, a language he learned to command perfectly. In 1975, Wilcock requested the Italian citizenship which was finally granted to him a year after his death, which occurred in his country cottage in Lubriano, Province of Viterbo, north to Rome, in March 1978.
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock is buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome located near the Porta San Paolo alongside the Pyramid of Cestius.
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