Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi dies aged 68

Died of the harshest critics of in Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has paid tribute to the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi after his death in Lisbon at the age of novelist 68.The, from cancer on Sunday.Antonio Di Pietro leader of the Italy of Values, called him "a great thinker [and] refined writer." Tabucchi, which include Indian business Nocturne, the death of Tristano and Pereira declares, and he was also a professor specializing in Portuguese literature. In a statement, I remembered his Italian publisher Feltrinelli him as "a friend, a fellow traveler, a man who lived with passion and anger] and [European intellectual.The funeral will take Tahir on Thursday in capital.Born Portuguese in 1943 in Pisa, Tabucchi - the only son of the horse dealer - he studied literature and philosophy in the novel Tuscany.His 1, 1975 is the Square d'Italia, explore the history of Italy through three generations of Tuscan anarchists.Indian Nocturne, which was published in 1984, and was a critical first success outside of Italy, and was filmed later in the novel by French director Alain Corneau.The short tells the story of a man search for the lost friend in India to become a journey of the said discovery.Pereira declare, also known as Pereira maintains, editor of the newspaper in the 1930s Portugal to join the struggle against fascism in the country, the work of 1994 regime.The was defending freedom of information activists all over the world and the Italians who are opposed to Berlusconi's political ambitions. Tristano's death in 2004, aims criticism Tabucchi further research into the political billionaire through the story of an old man who entrusted his life to friend.Democracy is not a state of perfection, "said one author." It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.