Writing · Writer
Born Oct 12, 1886 · Genoa, Italy
Active 1990–1981 · Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Golden Wreath, honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Feltrinelli Prize
Eugenio Montale (1896–1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature.