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CONOSCERE PER RESTARE. Rete fra gli istituti Pellati di Nizza Monferrato e Giobert di Asti
Studenti in visita all Riserva Naturale della Val Sarmassa

Davide Lajolo was born in the village of Vinchio in
1912 and died in 1984 in Milan, a city in which he
lived and worked for many years.
In 1943 he took part in the Italian Resistance in a
territory near to his village and he became famous
with the nickname of Captain Ulysses.
Then he
directed the newspaper “L’Unità” (1945-1958) and
was elected a Member of the Italian Parliament
(1958-1972).
He wrote the first biography of the author Cesare
Pavese, “The absurd vice” (1960), which was
translated in many countries throughout Europe and
in the U.S.A. He also wrote the biography of
another author, Beppe Fenoglio, “A warrior of
Cromwell on the Langhe’s hills” (1978).
In 1963 he wrote the story of his own crisis regarding his passage from Fascism to the Resistance, titled “The Turncoat” and in 1981, a diary about his life from 1945 to 1968, “Twenty-four years”. He devoted himself to literature and wrote many books about his experience and the stories and legends of his village, titled “My people” (1977), “Seeing the grass from the roots” (1977 Viareggio Prize for Literature), “The country blackbird, the city blackbird” (1983), and many others.
He also knew and became the friend of many poets, writers and painters. Particularly, his last book was dedicated to painters with the title “The men of the rainbow” (1984 )
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Domenica pomeriggio 17 settembre a Palazzo Crova di Nizza Monferrato si è svolto un incontro ricco di arte, musica e con la poesia dei “Mé”,
Palazzo Crova Nizza Monferrato 14 luglio - 19 novembre. Presentazione di Laurana Lajolo
Sabato 1° luglio a Vinchio, al Bricco di Monte del Mare – Bosco incantato, via Cortiglione
a Ferruccio Fornaro e Gianfranco Miroglio
Un'esperienza didattica di Laurana Lajolo
Vinchio 16 aprile ore 15.30
Giovedì 23 marzo