One of Italy's best-known
intellectuals and the former president of the prestigious
Grinzane Cavour book prize on Tuesday had a 2013 conviction for
embezzlement of public funds cut on appeal from 14 and a half
years to eight years and three months in prison.
Many of the charges against Giuliano Soria timed out.
Soria was arrested in 2009 for using around one
million euros of funds from the culture ministry and the
Piedmont region for private means.
Soria, 64, helped found the Grinzane Cavour prize in
1982.
The prize counts a number of authors among its recipients
who went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, including
Wole Soyinka, José Saramago, Gunter Grass, Orhan Pamuk and
Doris Lessing.
Soria was also convicted in the first-instance trial for
violence against his former Mauritian valet, one of the charges
that were covered by the statute of limitations.
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