Salvatore Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo (August 20, 1901 - June 14, 1968 ) was an Italian author. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959. Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale he is one of the foremost Italian poets of the 20th century.

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On his passing in 1968, he was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale in Milan.

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• Salvatore Quasimodo — the poet's official website (in Italian)
• Nobel Laureate Page — a Quasimodo page at the Nobel Prize website, with links to his biography and to his Nobel lecture "The Poet and the Politician"

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