Andrea Veglio nasce ad Alba l’8 luglio 1981 da una famiglia originaria della Langa. A quattordici anni si iscrive, contro il parere di tutti, alla locale scuola enologica. Motivo? Ama il vino. Poi capisce che in fondo anche i libri non sono male e il 29 febbraio 1996 passa a frequentare il classico. Ci prende…
Tipologia: Italian Authors
Gennaro Carotenuto
Gennaro Carotenuto was born in Naples in 1966. He graduated at University of Pisa in History of International Relations and has a PhD from University of Valencia in Contemporary History, he was a researcher at the University of Macerata, taught at Bocconi University in Milan, and is now associate professor in Contemporary History at the…
Nicola Brami
Nicola Brami grew up in Ghedi, Brescia. After eight years spent between Ireland and the United States, he returned to Italy, where he now works in translation and communication for an international company. In 2020 he published the novel Tutti se ne vanno with La Torre dei Venti, followed in 2024 by Melinoe vestita di…
Massimo Canuti
Massimo Canuti was born in Piombino in 1971. He graduated in Architecture and started working in the world of communication in 1999. At the same time, he dedicated himself to what he loves most: writing stories. In 2011, he published with Gianluca Belmonte the illustrated book Al buio vedi for Franco Cosimo Panini, which was…
Giorgio Figus
Giorgio Figus (http://www.fumetti.org/autori/figus.htm) was born in Turin on 7 November 1958. Desirous from an early age of becoming a comic book author, at the age of 17 he began drafting his first scripts, which he submitted to Edizioni Paoline. Passionate about Disney characters from a very young age, and Carl Barks in particular, he wrote…
Camilla Conti Shergill
Camilla Conti Shergill was born in Casale Monferrato in 1980 and grew up in Vercelli. After graduating with honours in Science of Education with a research thesis on the slums of Bombay, she left Italy for India. She still lives and works in Delhi with her Italian-Indian family. Camilla is now a perinatal educator, professional…
Pietro Albì
Pietro Albì Pietro Albì, pen-name for Pietro Albino Di Pasquale, is a screenwriter and writer born in Canzano, in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, in 1979. After his studies at the free school of Cinema Azzurro Scipioni by Silvano Agosti in Rome, he writes texts for theatre, film and television and works on the scripts…
Marco Chiarini
Marco Chiarini Marco Chiarini was born in Teramo in August 1974. He graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and then in Direction at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome in 2003. He began his career as a director with the feature film L’Uomo Fiammifero self-produced with the proceeds of…
Fabio Burzagli
Fabio Burzagli nasce a Piombino nel 1970, dove frequenta il liceo scientifico e studia pianoforte. Si laurea in ingegneria aerospaziale a Pisa nel 1997 e si trasferisce a Torino per lavorare sul design termico dei moduli della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale. Fra il 2004 e il 2007 fa il pendolare fra Torino e Cape Canaveral dove…
Stefano Chiapello
Stefano Chiapello was born in 1977. After college he worked as a social worker, shop assistant, call-center operator, caretaker in a sports facility, temporary teacher and musician, and in the recent years he has earned a living as an editorial translator. Lately he has lived between Turin, Barcelona, Manila and the Salento countryside. Instagram: @ilgrandemano…
Piero Ruzzante
Piero Ruzzante Nato a Padova l’11 giugno 1963 (lo stesso giorno in cui nel 1984 sarebbe morto Enrico Berlinguer), sposato con Lorena, ha tre figli. Laureato in Storia. Dal 1984 al 1988 segretario della Fgci di Padova. Dal 1985 al 1998 Consigliere Comunale a Padova, Assessore al Progetto città sane e politiche giovanili. Dal ’95…
Valentina Nieli
Valentina Nieli was born in Padua the year that The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released. Being a lazy person who hates low temperatures, she decided to move to Norway “because what hurts you attracts you, or at least that’s how it seems”. Her artistic production is mostly linked to photography. She won a photographic…
Andrea Maggi
Andrea Maggi (1974) teaches literary subjects in secondary schools. He published three adult books with Garzanti: two historical novels (Morte all’Acropoli, 2014 and Il sigillo di Polidoro, 2015) both translated in Spain, and a thriller set in a country school (Niente tranne il nome, 2017). As a teacher, he became popular as one of the…
Matteo Poletti
Matteo Poletti was born in Susa in 1979. He graduated in History of Cinema at the DAMS course of Turin. He worked for some online magazines that are about cinema and he published an essay about Blake Edwards called “Il tocco della pantera” (2010, ed. Il Principe Costante). In 2006, he had his debut as…
Francesco Dominedò
Francesco Dominedò was born in Neuilly Sur Seine (Paris) in December 1965. He is a director, actor, screenwriter, and author. He began his career as an actor soon after graduating from drama school. He made his debut with Pasquale Squitieri. He took part in over 30 film and television productions with leading roles or as…
Marilena Renda
Marilena Renda was born in Erice. She lived in Rome, Palermo and Milan and now she lives in Bologna, where she teaches, writes and translates. She graduated in Foreign Languages and got a PhD in Italian Studies with a thesis about Judaism and literature in the twentieth century. She wrote essays about Giorgio Bassani, Primo Levi,…
Carlo Vanin
Carlo Vanin was born in 1977 near Venice. He has studied Arts and Literature in Venice and is now a freelance graphic designer. Since 2009 he is part of the executive committee of the Sugarpulp literary movement, and is helping to organize the Sugarpulp Festival. Sincel 2010 he is an editor of the website Sugarpulp.it,…
Davide Golin
Davide Golin writes for the Venetian newspaper Il Gazzettino, is a freelance translator, writes songs and sings with the rock band Diva. His first novel, Pablito mon amour, a coming of age novel, was published in April 2011 by No Reply and it has now reach its third edition. It has also been included in the…
Carlo Callegari
Carlo Callegari, born in Padua in 1972, has always been fond of writing and music. From 2007 to 2009 he worked with the “intrecci d’arte” project, presenting some of his short stories during theme performances in the Milan area. Dazzled by the writings of Lansdale, Carlotto, Ammaniti and Gischler, he began to vary his writing…
Alvise Trisciuzzi
Alvise Trisciuzzi: He was born in Padova, Italy, in 1974 and he lives with his family at the foot of the Euganean Hills. He is a lawyer, a blood donor and a great sport buff: cycling, basket and American football, but only in the couch potato version. He loves stories, especially thrillers. He likes watching…
Renzo Stefanel
Renzo Stefanel is a rock critic and author of several books. He writes for the daily Il Gazzettino, for www.rockit.it, www.xtm.it and “Duemila”. In 2004 he has co-authored the national TV program on Raidue “Eventi pop”. He is the reviewer of the monthly book critic column “Bookit” on Rockit. In the early 90’s he was…
