Tommaso Fiore (7 March 1884 – 4 June 1973) was an Italian meridionalist writer and a socialist intellectual and politician.
[2] He is known for his attention and his descriptions and studies on the inhumane conditions of Southern Italian and often specifically Apulian peasants at that time.
During the twenty-year period of the Italian Fascist era, he strenuously opposed the regime before being sent into internal exile in 1942 and then being jailed in 1943.
This is the most rugged and stony Murgia; ... nothing more than the industriousness of a people of ants was needed in order to accomplish this massive work.Tommaso Fiore was born in a working-class family on 7 March 1884.
In 1952, his book Un popolo di formiche (which means "a people of ants") won the prestigious Viareggio Prize.