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Alessandro Leogrande

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 19 1977

Died: 2525 11 20172017

Alessandro Leogrande was an Italian journalist. He made his debut in long form journalism with Un Mare Nascosto , dedicated to his hometown, and in later books he went on investigating the new mafias, protest movements, and the exploitation of foreign agricultural laborers in Southern Italy. He then explored the topic of migration from Africa and the Balkans in his books Il naufragio. Morte nel Mediterraneo , Adriatico , La frontiera , and wrote the libretto of two operas: Katër i Radës on the Tragedy of Otranto, and Haye, Le parole, la notte , a musical voyage in contemporary migrations.

Leogrande died in Rome at the age of 40 from a heart attack. In speaking of his son, his father Stefano remembered his work "in defense of the downtrodden and the most fiercely exploited in all sort of settings where abuses were committed, from agricultural labourers to migrants to Argentinian desaparecidos." In 2018 a street was entitled to him in the capital of Albania, Tirana.

Alessandro Leogrande

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Born: May 19 1977

Died: 2525 11 20172017

Alessandro Leogrande was an Italian journalist. He made his debut in long form journalism with Un Mare Nascosto , dedicated to his hometown, and in later books he went on investigating the new mafias, protest movements, and the exploitation of foreign agricultural laborers in Southern Italy. He then explored the topic of migration from Africa and the Balkans in his books Il naufragio. Morte nel Mediterraneo , Adriatico , La frontiera , and wrote the libretto of two operas: Katër i Radës on the Tragedy of Otranto, and Haye, Le parole, la notte , a musical voyage in contemporary migrations.

Leogrande died in Rome at the age of 40 from a heart attack. In speaking of his son, his father Stefano remembered his work "in defense of the downtrodden and the most fiercely exploited in all sort of settings where abuses were committed, from agricultural labourers to migrants to Argentinian desaparecidos." In 2018 a street was entitled to him in the capital of Albania, Tirana.

Books from Alessandro Leogrande

La frontiera

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Uomini e caporali

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Il naufragio: morte nel Mediterraneo

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Dalle macerie: Cronache sul fronte meridionale

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Fumo sulla città

Le male vite: Storie di contrabbando e di multinazionali

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Ogni maledetta domenica: Otto storie di calcio

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Haye: Le parole, la notte

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Città nascoste: Trieste Livorno Taranto

L'agenda ritrovata. Sette racconti per Paolo Borsellino

Le maschere di San Giovanni: Un racconto per Paolo Borsellino

Adriatico

L'agenda ritrovata. Sette racconti per Paolo Borsellino

La frontiera raccontata ai ragazzi che sognano un mondo senza frontiere

Gli anni dello Straniero: Italia 1998-2017

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