Alessandro Defilippi is an Italian writer and screenwriter.
Born in Turin, he works as a psychoanalyst. [1] His published works include the gothic tales collection Una lunga consuetudine (Sellerio, 1994) and two novels, Locus Animae (Passigli, 1999), a psychological thriller, and Angeli (Passigli 2002), a gothic novel with themes of mysticism, politics, ethics and philosophy.
He also worked on the screenplay for Prendimi l'anima, directed by Roberto Faenza, and has written poetry.
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