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Mar 27, 1944 Camogli, Liguria, Italy Died on 06 Jul 2015 (aged 71)
Italian writer and journalist
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About Franco Scaglia
- Franco Scaglia (27 March 1944 – 6 July 2015) was an Italian writer and journalist. Born in Camogli, the son of the conductor Ferruccio, Scaglia started his career as a journalist, collaborating with the newspapers Il Messaggero, L'Unità, Il Tempo, Il Piccolo and Avanti!, among others.
- For over forty years he worked for RAI, notably being president of RAI Cinema between 2004 and 2013.Scaglia was also a novelist, and among other things he wrote a cycle of novels about the adventures of a Franciscan friar, Padre Matteo (Father Matthew); the first novel of the series, Il custode dell'acqua, earned him the Campiello prize in 2002.
- During his varied career, he was also an essayist, an author of fables, a translator, a producer, a documentarist, a playwright, as well as a radio and television writer.
