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.

Editor

 * Effetto Emilia, Officina immagine, Bologna, 1981
 * Mardi: rien. Existe: (Sartre): Esistenzialismi, Reggio Emilia (mostra a novembre 1981-febbraio 1982), Tecnograf, 1982
 * Primo Levi, Opere, 2 voll., Nuova Universale Einaudi 225, Einaudi, Torino, 1997 ISBN 88-06-14637-8
 * Primo Levi, Conversazioni e interviste 1963-1987, a cura di M. Belpoliti, Einaudi, Torino, 1997 ISBN 88-06-14348-4
 * trad. Dominique Autrand, Conversations et entretiens, 1963-1987, Laffont, Paris, 2000
 * (in English) trad. Robert Gordon, The voice of memory: interviews 1961-1987, New Press, New York, 2001
 * trad. Jytte Lollesgaard, Samtaler og interview 1963-1987, Forum, Copenaghen, 2003
 * Primo Levi, L'ultimo Natale di guerra, Einaudi, Torino, 2002 ISBN 88-06-16042-7
 * trad. Nathalie Bauer, 1018, Dernier Noël de guerre Paris, 2002
 * trad. Miquel Izquierdo, Ultima Navidad de guerra, El Aleph, Barcelona, 2003
 * Primo Levi, L'asimmetria e la vita. Articoli e saggi 1955-1987, Einaudi, Torino, 2002, ISBN 88-06-16050-8.
 * Primo Levi, Tutti i racconti, Einaudi, Torino, 2005, ISBN 88-06-17917-9.
 * Giorgio Manganelli, Mammifero italiano, Adelphi, Milano, 2007, ISBN 88-459-2137-9.
 * Primo Levi, Ist Das Ein Mensch?, Hanser Verlag, München, 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23744-5
 * Gianni Celati, Romanzi, cronache e racconti, con Nunzia Palmieri, Mondadori, Milano, 2016 ISBN 978-88-04-65876-4
 * Primo Levi, Opere Complete (2 voll.), Einaudi, Torino 2016.