Luciana Castellina

Luciana Castellina
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
5 July 1976 – 1 July 1987
In office
23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
Member of the European Parliament
In office
10 June 1979 – 13 June 1999
Personal details
Born (1929-08-09) 9 August 1929
Rome, Italy
Nationality Italian
Political party PCI (1947-1970; 1984-1991)
PDUP (1974-1984)
PRC (1991-1996)
SEL (2015-2017)
SI (since 2017)
Occupation Politician

Luciana Castellina (born August 9, 1929) is an Italian journalist, writer and politician.

She was born in Rome. Castellina received a degree in law from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1947, she joined the Italian Communist Party. In 1974, she was co-founder of the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism. She served four terms in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and twenty years in the European Parliament. In the European parliament, she served as chair of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media and of the Committee on External Economic Relations.[1][2][3]

She was president of Italia cinema, an agency to promote Italian films abroad, from 1998 to 2003.[1]

She served as editor of Nuova Generazione, a Communist youth magazine, and of Liberazione.[3]

Castellina was named an Officier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Comendadora (Commander) of the Republic of Argentina.[1]

Selected books[1]

  • Cinquant'anni d'Europa (2007)
  • Eurollywood, Il difficile ingresso della cultura nella costruzione dell'Europa (2008)
  • La scoperta del mondo, a finalist for the Strega Prize
  • Siberiana, won the Letterario Vallombrosa Prize in 2012
  • Guardati dalla mia fame (2014) with Milena Agus
  • Manuale antiretorico dell'Unione Europea (2016)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Luciana Castellina". Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona }language=es.
  2. ↑ "Luciana Castellina". European parliament MEPs.
  3. 1 2 Mulhern, Francis (2011). Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait. p. 150. ISBN 1844676994.
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