Enzo Biagi
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- Journalist
- writer
- television presenter
Enzo Biagi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɛntso ˈbjaːdʒi]; 9 August 1920 – 6 November 2007)[citation needed] was an Italian journalist, writer and former partisan.
Life and career
Biagi was born in Lizzano in Belvedere, and began his career as a journalist in Bologna. In 1952, he worked on the screenplay of the historical film Red Shirts. In 1953, he became the editor-in-chief of Epoca magazine.[1]
Active in journalism for six decades and author of some eighty books, Biagi won numerous awards, among which were the 1979 Saint Vincent prize and the 1985 Ischia International Journalism Award. In 1987, he won the Premio Bancarella for his book Il boss è solo, interviewing former Sicilian Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta, who had turned pentito (state witness). He worked on the Italian national TV channel Rai 1 until 2001.
On 9 May 2001, just two days before the general elections in Italy, during his daily prime time 10-minute TV show Il Fatto, broadcast on Rai Uno, Biagi interviewed the popular actor and director Roberto Benigni, who gave a hilarious talk about Silvio Berlusconi declaring his preference for the other candidate, Francesco Rutelli from the Olive Tree coalition.[2]
Bulgarian Edict
Biagi disappeared from TV screens a few months after Berlusconi's declarations in Sofia named also editto bulgaro, where the then-Prime Minister accused the popular journalist, together with fellow journalist Michele Santoro and showman/comedian Daniele Luttazzi, of having made criminal use of the public television service.
Biagi's defenders argue that a public service should provide pluralism, and that a country where government prevents opposing ideas from being voiced on air is a regime.
The issue of Berlusconi's motives for entering politics in the first place emerged in an interview that he gave with Biagi and Indro Montanelli, stating "If I don't enter politics, I will go to jail and become bankrupt".[3]
Biagi's return on TV and death
On 22 April 2007, 86-year-old Enzo Biagi made his TV comeback on the RAI with RT - Rotocalco Televisivo, a current affairs show which is broadcast on Rai 3. At the opening of the show, he declared:
Good evening, sorry if I am a bit emotional, maybe it is visible. There has been a technical problem, and the break has lasted five years.
Until shortly before his death he was also a columnist for the daily Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which he had worked for since the early 1970s.
Awards
1953 – Riccione Prize for "Giulia viene da lontano"[4]
1971 – Premio Bancarella for "Testimone del tempo"[5]
1979 – Saint-Vincent Prize for Journalism
1979 – Gold Medal of Civic Merit from the Municipality of Milan
1993 – Honorary President of the Jury for the "È giornalismo" Prize
2003 – Honorary Citizenship of Fucecchio, the birthplace of Indro Montanelli
2004 – Award for the program "Il Fatto" as the best journalistic program of the first fifty years of Rai[5]
2005 – Ilaria Alpi Television Journalism Career Award[6]
References
- ^ Gino Moliterno (11 September 2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture. Routledge. p. 289. ISBN 978-1-134-75876-0. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
- ^ La Repubblica. "Benigni, show tv anti Cavaliere" (in Italian).
- ^ Stille, Alexander (2006). The Sack of Rome. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-053-3.
- ^ "1959/1950 - Le affermazioni di Tullio Pinelli, Enzo Biagi, Luigi SquarzinaRiccione Teatro". 2013-06-17. Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ a b "Biagi, una vita per il giornalismo . Corriere della Sera". 2015-03-24. Archived from the original on 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ^ "Biagi, una vita per il giornalismo . Corriere della Sera". 2015-03-24. Archived from the original on 2015-03-24. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
External links
- Obituary in The Times, 1 December 2007
- "RT - Rotocalco Televisivo" website (in Italian)
- Enzo Biagi, a political affair (in Italian)
- "Il fatto" di Enzo Biagi ("The event" by Enzo Biagi) (in Italian)
- Associated Press: Enzo Biagi obituary (Published Nov. 6, 2007)
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- 1956 Han Suyin
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- 1960 Bonaventura Tecchi
- 1961 André Schwarz-Bart
- 1962 Cornelius Ryan
- 1963 Paolo Caccia Dominioni
- 1964 Giulio Bedeschi
- 1965 Luigi Preti
- 1966 Vincenzo Pappalettera
- 1967 Indro Montanelli
- 1968 Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1969 Peter Colosimo
- 1970 Oriana Fallaci
- 1971 Enzo Biagi
- 1972 Alberto Bevilacqua
- 1973 Roberto Gervaso
- 1974 Giuseppe Berto
- 1975 Susanna Agnelli
- 1976 Carlo Cassola
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- 1981 Sergio Zavoli
- 1982 Gary Jennings
- 1983 Renato Barneschi
- 1984 Luciano De Crescenzo
- 1985 Giulio Andreotti
- 1986 Pasquale Festa Campanile
- 1987 Enzo Biagi
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