Prestigioso riconoscimento internazionale allo scrittore sorrentino Raffaele Lauro, la cui biografia, politico-istituzionale e letteraria è stata pubblicata in inglese dalla “DA. Dante Alighieri Nottingham Society”, tra quelle dei maggiori artisti (poeti, scrittori e compositori) che hanno ispirato la loro opera a Sorrento come Torquato Tasso, Mary Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Marion Crawford, Maxim Gorky, Giovanbattista De Curtis e Lucio Dalla.

Di seguito il testo biografico nella versione originale pubblicata dalla “DA. Dante Alighieri Nottingham Society”

The Nottingham Dante Alighieri Society was formed in 1979 and promotes knowledge and appreciation of Italian life, language and culture. “ Raffaele Lauro – Sorrento author and politician born in 1944.
Italian Senator and writer Raffaele Lauro was born in 1944 in Sorrento.
A prolific author and song writer, Lauro has also been an important political figure for more than 30 years.
As a young man he worked as a receptionist at a number of hotels along the Sorrento peninsula.
After finishing school he went to the University of Naples where he was awarded degrees in Political Science, Law and Economics.
Lauro then won a scholarship from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and studied at their diplomatic institute and then later in Paris.
Afterwards he studied for a degree in Journalism in Rome and became director of a scientific magazine. He became a commentator on new technology for Il Tempo in Rome and Il Mattino in Naples and studied Film Directing while living in Rome, also teaching Law of Mass Communications at Rome University.
His political career began when he was elected as a Councillor for Sorrento in 1980. He went on to become Deputy Mayor and, as Councillor for finance, personnel and culture opened the Public Library of Sorrento and established a theatre school. He moved to Rome in 1984 and has held a number of Government posts.
In the general election of 2008, Lauro was appointed a Senator for the People of Freedom Party representing Campania.
He was made a member of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Mafia and later became political advisor to the Minister of Economic Development, Claudio Scajola.
For more than 40 years, Lauro has worked as a freelance journalist, essayist, screenwriter, author and director. He has written about foreign affairs and politics, brought out works of fiction under the pseudonym Ralph Lorbeer and composed music.
In January 2017, at the age of 73, Lauro published a song dedicated to the songwriter Lucio Dalla, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of his death. Lauro had previously written three books about Dalla”
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Per maggiori informazioni sulla bio-bibliografia completa di Raffaele Lauro: www.raffaelelauro.it – Wikipedia RaffaeleLauro