Biography

Michele Serra Errante was born in Rome in July 1954. In 1959 his family moved to Milan, where Serra grew up and studied.

He stopped his university studies to begin working as stenographer at “L’Unità”.

In 1985 he started his collaboration with “Tango”, led by Sergio Staino, devoting himself to the satirical writing. In 1989l, with the closing of “Tango”, Massimo D’Alema asked him to project and lead a new satirical and cultural insert. Michela Serra, pushed by this assigment, created “Cuore”, that in two years became an independent weekly insert.

In 1994 he left the direction of “Cuore” and dedicated himself to writing.
Currently he collaborates with “La Repubblica”.

Motivation for the attribution of the Liberation Award

Michele Serra is a journalist of “La Republica”, and author of numerous pamphlets, tests, reflections on the Italian customs, poetries, novels, theatrical shows and film scenarios.

He is a scratching, ironic but also tender and careful columnist. Michele Serra’s satirical writing is synthetized in this oxymoron of styles. With his shrewd irony, he has invented a new way to be a journalist-writer.

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