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Biography
Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, who read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass (1955), was impressed and published it. Mario Colombi Guidotti, responsible for the literary supplement of the Journal of Parma, began to publish his stories in the early 1950s.
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Awards & recognition
- Stresa Prize · 2000
- Bancarella Literary Prize · 1992
- Bancarella Literary Prize · 1972
- Grolla d'oro — Best New Director · 1972
- Strega Prize · 1968
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- David di Donatello — Best Script
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Nastro d'Argento — Best Screenplay
