What is Pier Paolo Pasolini?
{{Infobox writer | name = Pier Paolo Pasolini | image = Pier Paolo Pasolini.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1922|3|5|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bologna]], [[Kingdom of Italy]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|11|2|1922|3|5|df=y}} | death_place = [[Ostia (Rome)|Ostia]], [[Rome]], [[Italy]] | occupation = Movie director, novelist, poet, intellectual, journalist, linguist, philosopher }} '''Pier Paolo Pasolini''' (5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an [[Italians|Italian]] [[movie director]], [[poet]] and [[writer]].<ref>{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pqzRAIwoq8EC | title = Collected Poems | author = Pasolini Pier Paolo | year = 1996 | publisher = Noonday Press | ISBN = 9780374524692 }}</ref> Pasolini was born in [[Bologna]] and raised in [[Veneto]] and [[Fruili]]. His poetry was first published when he was 19 years old. He wrote many novels and [[essay]]s. He wrote his first [[screenplay]] in 1954. The first movie he directed was ''[[Accattone]]'' in 1961. This and many of his other works were controversial during his lifetime. In the years since his death, however, Pasolini has come to be valued by many as a visionary thinker and a major figure in [[Italian literature]] and art. Literary critic Harold Bloom considered Pasolini to be a major European poet and a major voice in 20th-century poetry. Pasolini was [[gay]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/2005-08-04/news/restoring-pasolini/ |title=Restoring Pasolini |access-date=2014-01-12 |archive-date=2013-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227224102/http://www.laweekly.com/2005-08-04/news/restoring-pasolini/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was [[murder]]ed on 2 November 1975. He was run over several times with his own car. He died on the beach at [[Ostia (Rome)|Ostia]], near [[Rome]]. He was buried in [[Casarsa]], in [[Friuli]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|0001596}} * [http://www.filmgale