Biography

Adele Cambria (12 July 1931, in Reggio Calabria – 5 November 2015, in Rome) was an Italian journalist, writer and actress. She was a central figure in Italian culture before, during, and after the 1968 movement alongside Camilla Cederna and Oriana Fallaci, and was close to the progressive left and to the Partito Radicale under Marco Pannella. She was also a longtime supporter of the feminist movement. Cambria collaborated with newspapers and magazines and published several books. She graduated in law from the University of Messina. She became involved with journalism in 1956 after moving to Rome, where she remained until her death.An author of narrative works (and of other genres) intended for the theater, she was a founder of the Teatro La Maddalena in Rome alongside Dacia Maraini. She was also a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini and acted in several of his films.

With other progressive intellectuals she gave her support and authority as the director of the daily newspaper Lotta Continua (but did not contribute to the political direction) to guarantee freedom of expression and to allow the newspaper to publish. In 1972 however, she was put on trial (later acquitted) for an article on the assassination of Luigi Calabresi, following which she quit for not sharing the opinion of the paper. In the following years she joined the Italian Socialist Party.