Carlo Cassola

Carlo Cassola
Born(1917-03-17)17 March 1917
Rome, Italy
Died29 January 1987(1987-01-29) (aged 69)
Montecarlo, Tuscany, Italy

Carlo Cassola (17 March 1917 – 29 January 1987) was an Italian novelist and essayist. His novel La Ragazza di Bube (1960), which received the Strega Prize, was adapted into a film of the same name by Luigi Comencini in 1963.