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Sergio Zavoli: Italian journalist, writer and politician (1923-2020).
Born (died at age 96).
Biography
Sergio Wolmar Zavoli (21 September 1923 – 4 August 2020) was an Italian sports and documentary journalist and politician. Born in Ravenna and raised in Rimini, Zavoli joined RAI, Italy's state broadcaster, as a sports radio journalist in 1947. He won two Prix Italia awards for his travel documentary Notturno a Cnosso (1953) and Clausura (1957), which included interviews with enclosed nuns. In 1962, he inaugurated the first transmission of Il processo alla tappa , a popular series of sports programmes dedicated to the Giro d'Italia. Zavoli's notable historical documentaries included Nascita di una dittatura (1972), which won the Saint-Vincent Prize, and La notte della Repubblica (1989–90), which documented the Years of Lead.
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