- Member of the European Parliament for Italian communists from 1984 to 1989.
- He and his wife Elsa Morante left Rome and flew to the area around Cassino at the end of World War II (his father was Jewish, as was Elsa's mother). As the protagonists of his novel "La Ciociara", played by Sophia Loren and Eleonora Brown in the movie version, did the same, the novel obviously contains autobiographical elements.
- One of Italy's leading novelists, whose works explored issues of modern sexuality, alienation and existentialism.
- As he suffered from tuberculosis, he spent some years of his adolescence in a sanatorium where he wrote his first novel "Gli Indifferenti" (The Indifferent Ones) (1929).
- Worked periodically as journalist for major Italian newspapers such as "Corriere della Sera" and "Il Mondo".
- From 1963 until 1983 he was the partner of writer Dacia Maraini.
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