Marco Belpoliti
# Marco Belpoliti

Marco Belpoliti (born 1954) is an Italian writer, essayist and critic, who contributes regularly to La Repubblica and L'Espresso, and is currently a professor at the University of Bergamo. He is the author of many books and edited the Einaudi edition of the complete works of Primo Levi.

## Biography

Marco Belpoliti was born in Reggio Emilia in 1954 and graduated from the University of Bologna in 1978 having completed a thesis on Semiotics supervised by Umberto Eco. His first published work was his novel Confine: vite immaginarie del clown in 1986. He now teaches Sociology of literature and Italian literature at the University of Bergamo. He is co-editor of the literary magazine Riga, which he co-founded in 1991. Since 1998 he has been a regular contributor to La Stampa and, from 2000, has produced a weekly literary review column to L'Espresso. His contributions to La Repubblica began in 2016.

