Answer the following question: Facts:   - spouse: edith bruck      - birth date: 21 april 1920    - nationality: italian    - birth place: milan , italy    - occupation: poet , film director   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of nelo risi .
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nelo risi -lrb- born 1920 in milan -rrb- is an italian poet , film director , translator and screenwriter , brother of cinematographer fernando risi and director dino risi .born in milan , he graduated in medicine as his brother dino , then with the outbreak of the second world war he fought on the russian front and was interned in switzerland .he started his poetical production in 1941 , with the collection `` le opere e i giorni '' .with the end of the war he moved to paris where he joined a group of filmmakers , led by the americans richard leacock and john ferno , engaged in documenting the disaster of the war in europe through a series of human-geography documentary films .during this time risi also published his second collection of poems -lrb- `` l'esperienza '' , 1948 -rrb- and worked as a translator of poetry works by pierre jean jouve , constantine p. cavafy , sophocles , jules laforgue and others .back in italy in 1954 he directed a dozen of documentary films on popular figures and moments in the history of the twentieth century .he made his feature film debut in 1961 , with a segment of the film `` le italiane e l'amore '' ; the same year he started his long collaboration with rai tv .during his film career risi won two silver ribbons , in 1960 for the direction of the short film `` the brothers rosselli '' -lrb- 1959 -rrb- and in 1970 for the screenplay of `` diary of a schizophrenic girl '' .in 1970 he also won the viareggio prize for his poetry collection `` di certe cose che dette in versi suonano meglio che in prosa '' .his poetry style is referred as `` poetics of the usual '' -lrb- `` poetica dell ` usuale '' -rrb- , in reference of the attempt of grasping the contradictions and the mystifications of everyday life through a basic , simple language , close to a diaristic style .