Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
THE PIKE: GABRIELE D’ANNUNZIO, POET, SEDUCER & PREACHER OF wAR (2013)
Winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction.
Winner of the 2013 Costa Book Awards Biography of the Year.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize.
Gabrieli D’Annunzio (born 1897) was an aristocratic journalist, poet and playwright. During the First World War he was a hero of the Itaian army and air force, fighting alongside elite storm troops, and taking part in the Flight over Vienna.
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett (born 1951) is a journalist, critic, and a respected author of both fiction and non-fiction books. At the age of 22 she was a winner of the Vogue Talent Contest, and was for five years a feature writer on Vogue. As a critic she has written for the Sunday Times and the Guardian, and was television critic of the Evening Standard for five years.
