Domenico Rea

{{Short description|Italian writer (1921–1994)}} {{Infobox person | image = Domenico Rea Le ragioni narrative (cropped).jpg | birth_date = {{birth-date|8 September 1921}} | birth_place = Naples, Italy | death_date = {{death-date and age|26 January 1994|8 September 1921}} | death_place = Naples, Italy | other_names = | occupation = Writer }}

'''Domenico Rea''' (8 September 1921 – 26 January 1994) was an Italian writer and journalist.

==Life and career== Born in Naples, the son of a carabiniere and a midwife, Rea grew up in Nocera Inferiore,<ref name="rep">{{cite news |last1=Ajello |first1=Nello |title=Un plebeo in paradiso |url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1994/01/27/un-plebeo-in-paradiso.html |access-date=9 August 2025 |work=la Repubblica|page=23 |date=27 January 1994 |language=it}}</ref> and in 1940, he penned the preface to a volume of verses of the Franciscan friar Angelo Iovino, his first published work.<ref name="bio">Durante, Francesco (2016). "[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-rea_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Rea, Domenico]". ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 86. Treccani.</ref> He made his debut as journalist in the weekly magazine ''Il Popolo fascista''.<ref name="bio" /> After the war, he became a local secretary of the Italian Communist Party, and obtained a diploma from the Istituto Magistrale.<ref name="bio" /> After releasing his first novella, ''La figlia di Casimiro Clarus'' (1945), and a collection of short stories, ''Spaccanapoli'' (1947), he moved to Campinas, in the state of São Paulo.<ref name="bio" /> Returned to Naples in 1949, he had his breakout with the collection of short stories ''Gesù, fate luce'', which won the Viareggio Prize and placed second at the Strega Prize.<ref name="bio" /> Following the violent suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Rea left the Italian Communist Party and departed from ''Paese Sera'', subsequently starting to collaborate with other newspapers, notably ''Corriere della sera''.<ref name="bio" />

In 1959, Rea released his first novel, ''Una vampata di rossore'', inspired by the last days of his sick mother.<ref name="bio" /> At the beginning of the 1970s, he started collaborating with RAI and became theatre critic for ''Il Mattino''.<ref name="bio" /> After numerous collection of short stories, essays, and two stage plays, in 1992, he released his second novel ''Ninfa plebea'', which won the Strega Prize and was adapted into a film with the same title by Lina Wertmüller.<ref name="rep" /><ref name="bio" /><ref name="st">{{cite news |last1=Barberi Squarotti |first1=Giorgio |title=Rea visionario principe dei vicoli |url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,21/articleid,0724_01_1994_0026_0021_10456485/ |access-date=9 August 2025 |work=La Stampa|date=27 January 1994|page=21}}</ref> After suffering a stroke on 8 January 1994, he died on 26 January, at the age of 72.<ref name="bio" /><ref name="st" />

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://domenicorea.it/}} * [https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-rea/ Domenico Rea] at Treccani * {{OL author|OL270504A}}

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