Tommaso Fiore, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian writer and politician
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Place of Birth: Altamura, Apulia, Italy
About Tommaso Fiore
- Tommaso Fiore (7 March 1884 – 4 June 1973) was an Italian Meridionalist writer and a socialist intellectual and politician.
- He is known for his attention and his descriptions and studies on the inhumane conditions of South Italy's and Apulian peasants at that time.
- He's also known for his Viareggio Prize-winning book Un popolo di formiche ("A people of ants").
- In the 1920s, he was appointed as mayor (Italian: sindaco) of his hometown Altamura.
- During the twenty-year period of Italy's fascist era, he strenuously opposed the regime before being sent into internal exile in 1942 and then being jailed in 1943.
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