Per una legge sull'obiezione di coscienza (with others). Un dialogo difficile: Sono liberi gli scrittori russi? (with IvanAnissimov). Otherĭer Fascismus: Seine Entstehung und seine Entwicklung. 1968 as The Story of the Humble Christian, 1971. Member: National Institute of Arts and Letters, PEN, Italian Pen Club (president, 1945-59), Association for the Freedom of Italian Culture (chairman). Honorary degrees: Yale University, 1965 University of Toulouse, 1969.

Awards: Marzotto prize, 1965 Campiello award, 1968 Jerusalem prize, 1969. Retired from politics to become full-time writer, 1950. Editor, Avanti!, socialist daily paper, 1945. After the Liberation returned to Rome joined the Socialist Party, 1945.

Political secretary and involved with the Resistence movements in Germany, Austria, France and the Balkans broadcast an appeal for civil resistence in Italy and was imprisoned by the Swiss, 1942. Returned to Rome and worked for underground papers, 1921-29 broke with the Communist Party. Became a communist and helped establish the Italian Communist Party which sent him to Russia in 1921 and to Spain in 1923 twice imprisoned in Spain for political reasons. Career: Secretary of the Federation of Land Workers of the Abruzzi, 1917 member of the Italian Socialist Youth Movement, 1917-21 editor of Avanguardia, a leftist paper, Rome, 1921-22. Education: Attended Jesuit and other Catholic schools in the Abruzzi and in Rome. Born: Secundo Tranquilli in Pescina, Italy.

Il segreto di Luca by Ignazio Silone