In both letters, the author expressed hope that he would be passed over by the Nobel Committee in favour of Alberto Moravia.

* 1907 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer ( d. 1990 )

* November 28 – Alberto Moravia, Italian novelist ( d. 1990 )

* September 26 – Alberto Moravia, Italian writer

Abe has been often compared to Franz Kafka and Alberto Moravia for his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society and his modernist sensibilities.

* Alberto Moravia – Le ambizioni sbagliate

* Alberto Moravia – Agostino ( Two Adolescents )

* Alberto Moravia – Il disprezzo ( A Ghost at Noon )

The film was adapted by De Sica and Cesare Zavattini from the novel of the same name written by Alberto Moravia.

The novel was criticized at the time of its first publication by some literary critics for its straightforward " old fashioned " realism, a type of Stendhalian or Tolstoyan realism that particularly irritated neo-realists such as Elio Vittorini and Alberto Moravia.

He was, or is, well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, Umberto Eco.

In the 1970s a novel by Alberto Moravia was seized because considered obscene and a local Catholic Archbishop protested the nudity of a centuries-old statue of a young man, and a group of local reactionaries even asked for the seizure of the £ 50 coin, because it showed a naked man.

Writing for L ' Espresso, Italian novelist Alberto Moravia highlighted the film's variations in tone: " Highly expressive throughout, Fellini seems to change the tone according to the subject matter of each episode, ranging from expressionist caricature to pure neo-realism.

The Conformist ( Il conformista ) is a novel by Alberto Moravia published in 1951, which details the life and desire for normalcy of a government official during Italy's fascist period.

Category: Novels by Alberto Moravia

Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra, Francesco Rosi, Alberto Moravia, Giulietta Masina, Marcello Mastroianni and Bernardo Bertolucci were among those who publicly mourned his death.

It was a key location in Jean-Luc Godard's film, Le Mepris, ( Eng: Contempt ), starring Brigitte Bardot and Fritz Lang, based on an Alberto Moravia novel.

Morante with Alberto Moravia at Capri in the 1940s.

She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day.

Towards the end of World War II, Morante with her husband, novelist and film critic Alberto Moravia, fearful because both were half Jewish, fled to the area around the Ciociara region near Rome, a flight that inspired Morante's " La storia " and Moravia's " La Ciociara " ( translated into English as " Two Women " and later made into a film with Sofia Loren ).

Brass ' films in the 1980s and early 1990s had mainly been adaptations of famous erotic literary works, namely The Key ( La chiave ), The Mistress of the Inn ( Miranda ), the novel Le lettere da Capri by Mario Soldati ( Capriccio ), Fanny Hill ( Paprika ), and the novel L ' uomo che guarda by Alberto Moravia ( The Voyeur ), while 2002 film Senso ' 45 is an adaptation of Senso, previously filmed by Luchino Visconti.

Levi's early time in Paris, as a painter and as a student of medicine, brought him into contact with many notable personalities of the 20th century, including Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio de Chirico, and others.

Past Presidents of International PEN have included Malcolm Afford, Alberto Moravia, Heinrich Böll, Arthur Miller, Mario Vargas Llosa, Homero Aridjis and Jiří Gruša.

After the Armistice of 8 September 1943, the anti-Fascist novelist Alberto Moravia and his wife Elsa Morante took refuge in Fondi ; the experience inspired Moravia's book La Ciociara (" The Woman of Ciociara ") ( 1958 ).

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

* 1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.

* 1983 – Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player

(€ 1. 56 million as a group ) The gate and TV income further slipped in 2009 – 10 season, made a net loss of € 21, 917, 292 ( already boosted by the sale of Alberto Aquilani ; € 22 million as a group ) despite sporting success ( the second in 2009 – 10 Serie A ).

* 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

* 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.

In July 1957, former Conservative President Laureano Gómez ( 1950 – 1953 ) and former Liberal President Alberto Lleras ( 1945 – 1946, 1958 – 1962 ) issued the " Declaration of Sitges ," in which they proposed a " National Front ," whereby the Liberal and Conservative parties would govern jointly.

* Alberto Malesani ( 1995 – 97 )

* 1937 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer ( d. 2006 )

* 1982 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist

* 1966 – Julio Alberto Rodas Hurtarte, Guatemalan footballer

* 1854 – Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince ( d. 1931 )

* Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism from Alberto Abadie – Harvard University and NBER, October 2004 ( pdf )

During the governments of General Juan Alberto Melgar ( 1975 – 78 ) and General Policarpo Paz ( 1978 – 82 ), Honduras built most of its physical infrastructure and electricity and terrestrial telecommunications systems, both of which are state monopolies.

* 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor ( Lecuona Cuban Boys ) ( d. 1974 )

* 1827 – Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman ( d. 1882 )

* 2005 – Alberto Lattuada, Italian director ( b. 1914 )

* 1982 – Alberto Gilardino, Italian footballer

* 1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer

* 1989 – Alberto Botía, Spanish footballer