Elio Filippo Accrocca (17 April 1923 – 11 March 1996) was an Italian poet, author, and translator. Having been born in

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, Accrocca studied at the University of Rome under the modernist poet

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, who remained a core influence on his poetry. From the mid-1950s, Accrocca began experimenting in new directions. He was an associate of many other figures in the Italian cultural scene, among them both literary figures like Alessandro Parronchi and artists like Marco Lusini. In 1959, Accrocca and fellow poets

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, Antonio Seccareccia, and Ugo Reale began the

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National Poetry Prize, an annual poetry competition for previously unpublished works. The annual prize began as a

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of wine; in 1974, it was changed to a cash prize of 1,000,000

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. From 1977 he taught arts at the '' Accademia di belle arti di Foggia'' where he also worked as its director. Accrocca died in

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, aged 72.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Accrocca, Elio Filippo Italian male poets 1923 births 1996 deaths 20th-century Italian poets 20th-century Italian male writers