Pier Angelo Soldini | |
Birth Place: | Castelnuovo Scrivia, Italy |
Death Place: | Volpedo, Italy |
Pier Angelo Soldini (25 May 1910 – 12 July 1974) was an Italian novelist, essayist and journalist.
Born in Castelnuovo Scrivia, in 1935 Soldini won a special Viareggio Prize for best first work thanks to his debut novel Alghe e meduse. In 1937, he won the Bagutta Prize for the book Sole e bandiere.[1]
Soldini collaborated as a journalist with various publications and was the editorial director of the publishing house Palazzi.[1] He died on 12 July 1974 in Volpedo, where he was spending his holidays.[1]