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Sebastiano Vassali 

Giulio Mozzi 

Giulio Mozzi (from Padua, Italy) has published twenty-six books—as fiction writer, poet, and editor—with presses like Einaudi and Mondadori. He is primarily known for his short story collections.…...

Marco Di Marco 

Marco Di Marco lives in Rome and has worked in publishing for seven years.  He’s worked with the literary agency, Il Segnallibro, and has also edited for the publishing house Arcana.  He…...

Flavio Niccolini 

Flavio Niccolini worked as an assistant director on Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert. He collaborated on screenplays for the films Saul e David and I grandi condottieri and wrote a number of screenplays…...

Domenico Starnone 

Born near Naples in 1943, Domenico Starnone is a writer, screenwriter, and journalist. He started out as a teacher, and several of his books are satirical takes on the world of education, both from teachers'…...

Igort 

Igort Tuveri (Igort) was born in Sardinia in 1958. His first stories were published in the magazine Il Pinguino, which he co-founded. Throughout the 1980s his work appeared regularly in the pages of the…...

Marco Candida 

Marco Candida was born in 1978 in Italy. He is the author of six novels and a novella, and the editor of http://www.websitehorror.com and an anthology drawn from the site, Il ritorno degli scrittori viventi…...

Carmine Abate 

Carmine Abate was born in Calabria, southern Italy. He immigrated to Germany at a young age and now lives in Trentino, northern Italy, where he teaches university. His first book, a collection of short…...

Fabio Stassi 

Fabio Stassi lives in Vietrbo and works as a librarian in Rome. He is the author of three novels and an encyclopedia of famous literary characters (forthcoming 2010 from minimum fax).

Leonardo Pica Ciamarra 

Leonardo Pica Ciamarra is a researcher in philosophy at the Italian National Research Council. He has published short stories in several magazines. As Far As We Can See received a special mention from…...

Marco Arnaudo 

Marco Arnaudo was born and grew up in Cuneo, Italy. He has a PhD in Italian Literature from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University.…...

Paolo Di Tonno 

Paolo Di Tonno was born in Pescara, Italy. He has a doctorate  in computer science from the Università degli Studi in L'Aquila. He lives in Lugano, Switzerland, where he works in financial…...

Nanni Balestrini 

Nanni Balestrini was born in Milan in 1935. He is a respected Italian novelist and poet. Among his claims to fame is the fact that he used a computer to write poetry in 1961. One of his novels has been…...

Davide Sapienza 

Photograph: Andre Aschedamini Davide Sapienza, born 1963, is an author, writer and journalist. He started writing books on rock music in the early eighties at the age of twenty. He has had a successful…...

Valeria Parrella 

Valeria Parrella was born in 1974 and lives in Naples. Since the publication in 2003 of her debut short story collection, Mosquito and Whale, she has been widely regarded as one of Italy's most exciting…...

Marta Poggi 

Marta Poggi is an actress and playright. Her books with Riccardo Falcinelli include the graphic novels Cardiaferrania and Grafogrifo. Their website is www.falcinellipoggi.com.

Riccardo Falcinelli 

Riccardo Falcinelli is the founder of Mediagrafia. His books with Marta Poggi include the graphic novels Cardiaferrania and Grafogrifo. Their website is www.falcinellipoggi.com.

Angelo Cannavacciuolo 

Angelo Cannavacciuolo, born in Naples in 1956, began as an actor and is a screenwriter for cinema, television, and theater. His novels include Guardiani delle nuvole (1999), a finalist for the Viareggio…...

Sebastiano Vassalli 

Sebastiano Vassalli was born in Genova, Italy, and lives in the province of Novara. He is the author of over twenty books, including La notte della cometa, Sangue e suolo, L'alcova elettrica, L'oro…...

Francesco Fantasia 

Dacia Maraini 

The daughter of well-known ethnologist Fosco Maraini, Dacia Maraini spent her early childhood in Japan while her father conducted his research. Because of her parents' anti-fascist views, the family…...

Alda Merini 

Alda Merini (1931–2009) was an Italian poet. Her books include The Presence of Orpheus, Diary of an Other, and Rage of Love, as well as the collections Aphorisms and Aphorisms and Spells.

Massimo Bontempelli 

Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) graduated in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Turin. He worked as a journalist, teacher, and musicologist, and served as an artillery officer during the First…...

Mario Rigoni Stern 

As his friend and fellow storyteller, Primo Levi once wrote, "that Mario Rigoni Stern exists has something of the miraculous about it . . . and it is equally miraculous that Rigoni is what he is, that…...

Carlo Emilio Gadda 

Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893-1973)was born in Milan. He earned a degree in engineering, volunteered to fight in World War I, and was taken prisoner by the Germans. After the war, he began to write while working…...

Gianrico Carofiglio 

Gianrico Carofiglio, born 1961, is an anti-mafia prosecutor in the Southern Italian city of Bari. He has been responsible for the area's most important indictments regarding organized crime, corruption…...

Giampiero Rigosi 

Giampiero Rigosi, born in 1962, lives and works in Bologna. He is a much acclaimed literary critic, short-story and song writer as well as a producer of radio programs on cinema noir and crime literature.…...

Leonardo Gori 

Leonardo Gori, born in Florence, has created one of the most intriguing characters to have appeared in Italian crime fiction in recent years: Captain (now Colonel) Bruno Arcieri. The most recent title…...

Elena Gianini Belotti 

Elena Gianini Belotti is the author of several novels and nonfiction works, among them Dalla parte delle bambine (Feltrinelli, 1973), Prima le donne e i bambini (Rizzoli, 1980 and 1998), Il fiore dell'ibisco…...

Erri De Luca 

Erri De Luca was born in Naples in 1950 and lives near Rome today. He is one of contemporary Italy's most acclaimed novelists, who came to writing after a lifetime of political protest and long years…...

Maria Pace Ottieri 

Maria Pace Ottieri lives in Milan where she contributes to various newspapers, including L'Unità and Diario della Settimana. She has written a novel Amore Nero (Mondadori, 1984, Viareggio Opera…...

Tiziano Scarpa 

Tiziano Scarpa was born in Venice in 1963. He is a poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He has written a number of acclaimed novels including Eyes On the Broiler and Western Kamikaze. His radio play…...

Milo De Angelis 

Milo De Angelis, born in Milan in 1951, is the author of five books of poetry, as well as a volume of stories and one of essays. He has also published translations of several modern French authors and…...

Laura Pariani 

Laura Pariani is a critically acclaimed Italian writer who has published nine novels and three short story collections since 1993.

Benedetta Centovalli 

Benedetta Centovalli works in publishing in Milan as an editor of Italian fiction. She has edited works by poets including Camillo Sbarbaro, Cristina Campo, and Alda Merini, and by writers including Vittorini,…...

Filippo Tuena 

Filippo Tuena was born in Rome in 1953 and lives in Milan. He studied art history and published his first novel, Lo sguardo della paura, in 1991. He was awarded the Grinzane-Cavour Prize in 2000 for Tutti…...

Antonio Moresco 

Antonio Moresco was born in Mantua and lives in Milan. He published his first collection of short stories, Clandestinità, at the age of forty-six. He has gone on to publish several more books, among…...

Marco Baliani 

Actor and director Marco Baliani has a background in theater animation and theater for children. He founded the "Ruotalibera" and "Trickster-Bricconi Divini" companies, and since 1998 has been investigating…...

Elena Ferrante 

Elena Ferrante was born in Naples. Though she is one of Italy's most important and acclaimed contemporary authors, her identity is a mystery. Her books include I giorni dell'abbandono [The Days…...

Gianni Riotta 

Gianni Riotta was born in Palermo, Italy, in 1954. His books include NY, on the aftermath of September 11th, and Global War, essays on the Iraq War. His novel Prince of the Clouds was short-listed for…...

Melania Mazzucco 

Melania Mazzucco was born in Rome in 1966. She earned a degree in Italian literature from La Sapienza University and a degree in cinema from the Experimental Center for Cinematography. In addition to her…...

Ignazio Silone 

Ignazio Silone, born Secondino Tranquilli in Pescina dei Marsi (Abruzzi), lost his mother in the local earthquake of 1915. A founding member of the Italian Communist Party, he was expelled in 1931 and…...

Matteo B. Bianchi 

Matteo B. Bianchi was born in 1966 in the province of Milan. He has published two novels with Baldini Castoldi Dalai: Generations of Love (1995) and Fermati Tanto Così (in its second printing),…...

Silvia Ballestra 

Silvia Ballestra, born in Porto San Giorgio (Ascoli Piceno), was one of Pier Vittorio Tondelli's "under 25s" in the landmark series of the late 1980s. Her debut book, Compleanno dell'iguana (1991),…...

Elsa Morante 

Elsa Morante (1912-85) is the author of numerous works, among them Il gioco segreto (1941), Le bellissime avventure di Caterí dalla trecciolina (1942), Menzogna e sortilegio (1948), L'isola…...

Luigi Malerba 

Luigi Malerba is the pseudonym of Luigi Bonardi, who was born near Parma in 1927 but has long lived in Rome. His writing includes novels, stories, and children's literature. He is best known for the…...

Angela Nanetti 

Angela Nanetti has written more than twenty books for children and adolescents. Widely translated, this work has won such awards as the Hans Christian Andersen Medal of the International Board on Books…...

Guido Monte 

Guido Monte was born in 1962. His books and translations have been published by the Italian houses Rubbettino and Ed. Della Battaglia. He teaches Italian and Latin literatures at the Liceo "A. Einstein"…...

Adolfo Albertazzi 

Adolfo Albertazzi was born in Bologna in 1865. Before his death in 1924, he had produced thirty-three volumes of fiction, literary criticism, and history. In addition to critical studies on Tasso and Foscolo,…...

Paola Capriolo 

Paola Capriolo is the author of fifteen books, including novels, collections of stories, literary criticism, and translations from the German. Several of her novels have appeared in English: Floria Tosca,…...

Luigi Pirandello 

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) is a premier figure of world literature and the greatest Italian modernist writer. Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1934 for his strikingly original plays, including…...

Wu Ming 

Wu Ming, Mandarin for "no name," is the newest pseudonym for Federico Guglielmi, Roberto Bui, Luca di Meo, and Giovanni Cattabriga, who range in age from thirty-two to forty-two and live in Bologna. As…...

Pier Paolo Pasolini 

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-75) was the internationally acclaimed writer, poet, critic, actor, director, and filmmaker. Among his most noted films are his epic masterpiece Accatone!, The Gospel According…...

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