Giovannino Guareschi

Italian journalist, humorist, and novelist, famous for his stories of an Italian village where Father Camillo, the stubborn Catholic priest, is constantly in trouble with the local Communist mayor Peppone. These characters  of the Cold War polarization and their ideological disputes are depicted with warm humour. Guareschi’s books gained a huge popularity outside Italy, where they have sold over twenty-three million copies worldwide.

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