A writer and essayist (Reggio Emilia, 1954), Marco Belpoliti graduated from Bologna in 1978 under the guidance of Umberto Eco. Since the 1980s, he has been a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as La Stampa, L'Espresso, and Alias - il manifesto. Together with Stefano Chiodi, he is the founder and director of the editorial project Doppiozero, which was created online and soon became a reference point in the Italian cultural debate; he is also the curator, alongside Elio Grazioli, of the cultural magazine Riga. He has taught at the University of Bergamo and now teaches at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan; his research interests are geared towards Italian literature, semiotics, and visual arts. In 1997, he edited the complete edition of the works of Primo Levi and the book Conversazioni e interviste 1963-1987 for Einaudi. In 2006-2007, he published the book La prova and released, together with the director Davide Ferrario, the documentary La strada di Levi, in which Belpoliti, 60 years later, undertakes the journey made by the Piedmontese writer through post-war Europe. Amongst his latest works: Pianura (Einaudi, 2021), Pasolini e il suo doppio (Guanda, 2022), the curation of the volume Calvino A-Z (Electa, 2023), and Nord Nord (Einaudi, 2025).

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