‘The Italian Joseph Conrad’
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Described by the literary press as the “Italian Joseph Conrad” and “a 20th century Balzac”, #Alessandro_Spina–the pen name of Basili Shafik Khouzam–was a Syrian Maronite who was born in Benghazi in 1927 and died in Milan in 2013. Despite winning universal critical praise, Spina’s works were mostly ignored: nobody bought them, and nobody read […]