Marco Belpoliti (born 1954) is an Italian writer, essayist and critic, who contributes regularly to La Repubblica and L'Espresso, and is currently a professor at the University of Bergamo.
[3] Marco Belpoliti was born in Reggio Emilia in 1954 and graduated from the University of Bologna in 1978 having completed a thesis on Semiotics supervised by Umberto Eco.
His first published work was his novel Confine: vite immaginarie del clown in 1986.
He is co-editor of the literary magazine Riga, which he co-founded in 1991.
Since 1998 he has been a regular contributor to La Stampa and, from 2000, has produced a weekly literary review column to L'Espresso.