Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.
Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian novelist and former anti-Mafia judge in the city of Bari. His debut novel, Involuntary Witness, published in 2002 and translated into English in 2005 by Patrick Creagh, was published by the Bitter Lemon Press and has been adapted as the basis for a popular television series in Italy. The subsequent novels were translated by Howard Curtis and Antony Shugaar.
Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band is Enrico Brizzi's debut novel. Brizzi wrote it at the age of eighteen and it was first published in 1994. The name "Jack Frusciante" is a deliberate modification of John Frusciante, the guitarist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Margaret Mazzantini is an Italian-Irish writer and actress. She became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Mazzantini began her acting career in 1980 starring in the cult horror classic Antropophagus, she has also appeared in television and theatre. As a successful writer, her novels include Non ti muovere which was adapted into the namesake film and is directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto and stars Penélope Cruz. Her career as a writer and actress has earned her several awards and nominations including Campiello Awards, a Golden Ticket Award, and a Goya Award.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
Roberto Pazzi was an Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into twenty-six languages. He was widely recognized in Italian literary circles for his poetry and novels. His Debut novel, Cercando l'Imperatore in 1985, received a number of international awards and started a prolific career of historical and contemporary novels.
Antonio Pennacchi was an Italian writer, winner of the Strega Prize in 2010 for his novel, Canale Mussolini.
Marino Moretti was an Italian poet and author.
Gabriele Basilico was an Italian photographer who defined himself as "a measurer of space".
Baldini + Castoldi, formerly known as Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore until 2018, is an Italian publishing house founded in 1897 as Baldini & Castoldi. It changed its name to Dalai Editore in 2011, and Baldini & Castoldi became a series of Dalai Editore. The company has published several successful authors and is located under the arcades of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan.
Pasquale Chessa, born in Alghero, is an Italian historian and journalist.
Mario Landi was an Italian director known for his giallo movies such as Giallo a Venezia and his television series Le inchieste del commissario Maigret.
Jack Frusciante Left the Band is a 1996 Italian teen drama film directed by Enza Negroni. It is based on Enrico Brizzi's bestseller Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band.
Giorgio Scerbanenco was an Italian crime writer.
Giovanni Bertacchi was a poet, teacher and Italian literary critic.
Francesca Melandri is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Più alto del mare in 2012.
Sara Rattaro is an Italian writer.
Maria Idolina Landolfi was an Italian novelist, poet and literary critic. She was daughter of the writer Tommaso Landolfi and the principal curator of his works.
Mauro Corona, is an Italian writer, mountaineer and wood carver.
The war correspondent also has to know how to be a reporter, the best, the most careful, and smartest reporter. He has to look for the facts, and tell them, even when nobody is talking, or when bombs are raining down on you, or when they threaten you that if you write that stuff there they will expel you from the front.
