Massimo Gramellini | |
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 Gramellini in 2012 | |
| Born | 2 October 1960 Turin, Italy |
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| Period | 1990–present |
| Spouse | Maria Laura Rodotà (div.) |
| Partner | Simona Sparaco |
Massimo Gramellini (born 2 October 1960) is an Italian writer and journalist working at Corriere della Sera .
Gremellini was born in Turin in 1960 to a family from Romagna. At the age of nine, he lost his mother, Giuseppina Pastore, to suicide; seriously ill and depressed, she threw herself from a building's fifth floor. Nobody wished to reveal the details to the young Massimo, and his father told him that she had died of a sudden heart attack. This episode has made a great impression on him throughout his life. He discovered the truth many years later in the mid-1990s, reading a 1969 newspaper article. [1]
Gremellini has published books and articles about Italian society and politics, an almanac about 150 years of the history of Italy (with Carlo Fruttero), and two series of stories about the football team Torino FC. In 2010, he published his first novel, L'ultima riga delle favole ("The Last Line of Fables"), which sold over 250,000 copies in Italy and was translated into several languages. In 2012, he released his second novel, Fai bei sogni ("Have Good Dreams"), which was the best-selling book of 2012, selling over one million copies. [2]
Starting in Autumn 2016, Gremellini has presented Le parole della settimana on the talk show Che tempo che fa . After 28 years at newspaper La Stampa , he began working with Corriere della Sera in 2017. [3] On several occasions he was accused, notably by the Sinti, [4] of being racist, political apathist, and using populist arguments in his columns Il Buongiorno and Il Caffè, [5] and was described by critics as a qualunquista , sexist, and Islamophobe. [6] [7]
Gremellini was married to journalist Maria Laura Rodotà , daughter of lawyer Stefano Rodotà. Since their divorce, he has been in a relationship with the italian writer Simona Sparaco , eighteen years younger. They have a son, Tommaso, born on 19 February 2019. He considers himself a believer but not Catholic. [8]
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