Beppe Fenoglio

Beppe Fenoglio was an Italian writer, partisan and translator from English who died in Turin in 1963, aged 40. He is best known for stories of the Langhe, the rural country where he grew up, and of the Italian resistance, which he had lived through himself. His novels include The Twenty-three Days of the City of Alba (1952) and Johnny the Partisan, first published in 1968, after his death. His other titles include A Private Affair, a romance set in the same partisan world.