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Michele Serra | |
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| Born | (1954-07-10)10 July 1954 (age 71) |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Michele Serra (born 10 July 1954) is an Italian journalist,[1] writer, and satirist.
Serra was born inRome, but moved to Milan in 1959. In 1975 he started working forL'Unità, then the official newspaper of theItalian Communist Party (PCI). Serra is a long-time left-wing supporter, although he abandoned PCI's successor, thePartito Democratico della Sinistra, in 1991, because of dissent against the party's directions.
In 1986, he began to write satire forL'Unità satiric supplementTango, winning the Satire PrizeForte dei Marmi the same year. In 1987 he also started collaborating forMondadori's weeklyEpoca, but abandoned it in 1990, when the publisher house was acquired by right-winged tycoonSilvio Berlusconi.
In 1989,Tango was replaced byCuore asL'Unità's satirical supplement, and Serra was appointed byMassimo D'Alema as its director.Cuore was published weekly independently starting from 1991. In the same period Serra also began to write forBeppe Grillo's TV appearances and stage shows. In 1989, he published his first book, a short story collection entitledIl nuovo che avanza ("The advancing new").
On 7 June 1992, Serra began a popular satire column forL'Unità, entitled "Che tempo fa" accompanied byEllekappa's comics. In 1994 he abandoned the direction ofCuore and, in 1996, began to collaborate for the newspaperLa Repubblica and for the weeklyL'Espresso, for which he continues to write as of 2008. Serra's first novel,Il ragazzo mucca, was published in September 1997.
In the following years, Serra wrote for numerous TV and theatre shows, includingFabio Fazio'sChe tempo che fa. He is an atheist and has been a communist.[2]
In 2025 he promoted the demonstration "Una Piazza per l'Europa-A square for Europe" on March 15 in Rome.[3]
