Giovanni Arpino

Born in Pola to Piedmontese parents and raised in Bra, he completed a university thesis on Sergei Yesenin before debuting with the novel Sei stato felice, Giovanni in 1952 and soon turned to sports journalism for La Stampa, Il Giornale and La Gazzetta dello Sport, where, alongside Gianni Brera, he introduced a literary flair to Italian sports writing. His prose, noted for dry irony, earned the… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources