Alberto Arbasino

Nino Alberto Arbasino (22 January 1930 – 22 March 2020) was an Italian writer, essayist, and politician.
Biography.
Arbasino was born in Voghera, southwestern Lombardy. He studied at the University of Milan where he graduated in law. Later he worked as journalist for magazines such as "Il Mondo" and the newspaper "La Repubblica". From 1983 to 1987, he was deputy in the Italian Parliament for the Italian Republican Party.
His work includes novels and essays. Arbasino was a member of the Gruppo 63.
He described himself as an expressionist writer and considered his novel "Super Eliogabalo" ("Super Elagabalus", 1969) as his most surreal and most expressionist book. He edited and rewrote his various works, which were reprinted in updated versions.
In the 1970s he was the host of the TV debate show "Match". In December 1977 it hosted a famous debate between directors Mario Monicelli and (the emerging) Nanni Moretti. Moretti said that Monicelli's "An Average Little Man" was a reactionary film.
In 2004 he won the Premio Chiara for his career.
Arbasino died on 22 March 2020, at the age of 90, after a long illness.