The writer Raffaele La Capria died at the age of 99.
Winner, among other things, of the Strega prize in 1962 with his masterpiece Feriti a Morte, a denunciation of Neapolitan bad governance.
In 1963 the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the screenplay of Mani sul città by his friend the director Francesco Rosi.
He was born in Naples in 1922 and from 1950 he lived in Rome.