journal devoted to literature in the modern industrial age. He also ran as a candidate on an Italian Socialist Party list. He died in Milan in 1966. He was an atheist. Partial bibliography Racconti di piccola borghesia (1931) Il garofano rosso (Translated as The Red Carnation, 1933) Conversazione in Sicilia (Translated as Conversations in Sicily, 1941) Uomini e no (Translated as Men and not Men, 1945) Le donne di Messina (1949) (Translated by Frances Frenaye, Women of Messina, 1973) Erica e suoi fratelli (Translated as Erica, 1956) He also translated the works of Defoe, Poe, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Lawrence, Maugham and others into Italian. References Sources Biographies Un padre e un figlio. Biografia famigliare di Elio Vittorini by Demetrio Vittorini. Bellinzona [Switzerland]: Salvioni, 2000. (Demetrio Vittorini is Elio Vittorini's son.) 1908 births 1966 deaths Writers from Sicily People from Syracuse, Sicily People of Emilian descent Italian resistance movement members Italian anti-fascists Italian Communist Party politicians 20th-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian translators 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian male writers Italian newspaper editors Italian male journalists Italian magazine founders