Luigi Silori

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Luigi Silori
Luigi Silori with Italian actress Elsa De Giorgi
Born	Luigi Silori (1921-11-19)19 November 1921 Rome, Italy
Died	9 July 1983(1983-07-09) (aged 61) Rome, Italy
Occupation	short story writer, literary critic, television personality, playwright
Nationality	Italian

Luigi Silori (19 November 1921 – 9 July 1983) was an Italian literary critic, novelist, playwright, and a popular radio and television personality in the 1950s and 1960s.

Descended from an old Umbrian family, at the beginning of his university studies Silori was called to military service and spent four years in the Italian army during World War II. Silori served in the ill-fated Acqui Division, and was a survivor of the Cephalonia Massacre. After 1945, he graduated in Literature and started to write novels and theatrical texts. In 1954 he began appearing on both television and radio, and became very popular in Italy as "the man who introduced the books on TV".