Franco Scaglia (27 March 1944 – 6 July 2015) was an Italian writer and journalist.

Biography

Born in

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, the son of the conductor Ferruccio, Scaglia started his career as a

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, collaborating with the newspapers ''

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'' and ''

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'', among others. For over forty years he worked for

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, notably being president of

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between 2004 and 2013. Scaglia was also a novelist, and among other things he wrote a cycle of novels about the adventures of a Franciscan friar, Padre Matteo (Father Matthew); the first novel of the series, ''Il custode dell'acqua'', earned him the Campiello prize in 2002. During his varied career, he was also an essayist, an author of fables, a translator, a producer, a documentarist, a playwright, as well as a radio and television writer.

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1944 births 2015 deaths People from the Metropolitan City of Genoa Writers from Liguria Italian male journalists Italian male dramatists and playwrights Italian male essayists Italian male novelists Premio Campiello winners 20th-century Italian male writers 21st-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Italian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Italian journalists 21st-century Italian journalists 20th-century Italian translators 21st-century Italian translators 20th-century Italian essayists 21st-century Italian essayists {{Italy-writer-stub