Quaderni del carcere (English: The Prison Notebooks) are a series of essays written by the Italian neo-Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Gramsci was imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926. The notebooks were written between 1929 and 1935, when Gramsci was released from prison on grounds of ill-health. The notebooks were smuggled out of prison in the 1930s. They were not published until 1948-1951 and were first translated into English in the 1970s, by the Scottish poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson.
