Giorgio Manganelli was an Italian journalist, avant-garde writer, translator, and literary critic from Milan. He emerged as one of the leaders of Italy's avant-garde literary movement in the 1960s, particularly through his involvement with Gruppo 63, a group dedicated to experimental and innovative writing. His work was characterized by baroque and expressionist styles that pushed the boundaries of conventional narrative. Manganelli was a prolific translator who brought major international authors into Italian. He translated Edgar Allan Poe's complete stories as well as works by T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Eric Ambler, O. Henry, Ezra Pound, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Byron's Manfred, among others. His translation work helped introduce modernist and classic literature to Italian audiences. Among his own works, Hilarotragoedia, published in 1964, exemplified his experimental approach to fiction. Centuria, which won the prestigious Viareggio Prize, became his most widely read work and was translated into English in 2005 by Henry Martin. Agli dei ulteriori showcased his inventive approach through a collection of linked short pieces, including an imaginative exchange of letters between Hamlet and the Princess of Cleves, concluding with a mock scholarly article on the language of the dead. Manganelli died in Rome in 1990. Italo Calvino praised him as "a writer unlike any other, an inexhaustible and irresistible inventor in the game of language and ideas."