Eraldo Baldini, Sandrone Dazieri, Mihály Györik, Giampiero Rigosi, Fausto Brizzi, Marco Martani.
ERALDO BALDINI
was born in Italy (Russi-Ravenna) on 1952 e lives in Porto Fuori di Ravenna. He is writer, essayist, scriptwriter and cultural anthropology researcher. As a cultural anthropology specialist he published many works on Italian folklore, gaining Premio Nazionale “Costantino Pavan” supporting research on local cultures.
As a novelist on 1998 he published Mal’aria(Frassinelli Edition)with which he won Premio“Fregene”; on 1999 by Faccia di Sale (Frassinelli Edition) we won Premio “Serantini”; on 2000 with Gotico Rurale (Frassinelli Edition)he won Premio “Settembrini – Regione del Veneto”; on 2001 he published Tre Mani nel Buio (Sperling & Kupfer Edition), and Terra di Nessuno (Frassinelli Edition); on 2002 Bambine (Sperling & Kupfer Edition) and, together with Carlo Lucarelli and Giampiero Rigosi, Medical Thriller (Einaudi Edition); on 2003 Bambini, Ragni e altri Predatori (Einaudi Edition); 0n 2004 Nebbia e Cenere (Einaudi Edition); on 2006 Come il Lupo (Einaudi Edition) winning Premio “Predazzo”; on 2007 Le notti gotiche (Aliberti Edition) together with Massimo Cotto, and Melma (Ambiente Edition); on 2008 with Alessandro Fabbri he published Quell’estate di Sangue e di Luna (Einaudi Edition).
He also wrote L’Estate Strana (EL Edition 1997) a novel for kids and on 2001 a novel for children: Le Porte del Tempo committed by Walt Disney. His novels appear on many noir, thriller and mystery anthologies. His works are translated abroad by important editors.
He wrote screenplay and subjects for movies and television.
Films were made by his works: La Valle delle Ombre on screen at the beginning of 2009 and Mal’Aria, a TV film, that will be on RAI Uno Italian Television on 2008-2009 winter.
In 1992 he gets closer to publishing working as a proofreader for Telepress editorial service, and after five years he is appointed general manager of Milan branch. He also works as a freelance journalist and collaborates with Manifesto as an expert of controculture and genre fiction. In 1999 he achieves his first popular success with the thriller "Attenti al gorilla (Watch Out For The Gorilla)" -- first in a best-seller series, where the main charater is a sort of doppelgänger of Dazieri himself, living the nightlife in Milan with all the ensuing troubles. He writes two other noir novels ("La cura del Gorilla" Einaudi - "Gorilla Blues" Strade Blu Mondadori), a novel for kids ("Disney Avventura"), some scripts for comics (Pinocchio, Diabolik)and many short stories.
He's also a scriptwriter: among his films, "La cura del Gorilla" directed by Carlo A. Sigon (from the same book), "Un gioco da ragazze" directed by Matteo Rovere and "L'ultima Battuta", a tv movie.
With Italian film director Gabriele Salvatores and producer Maurizio Totti, Dazieri founds in 2004 the publishing house Colorado Noir. From 2000 to 2004 he's also the chief editor of the Crime series Gialli Mondadori and the catalogue for young readers Libri per Ragazzi Mondadori. His last novels are: "E' stato un attimo" Mondadori Strade Blu 2006, "Cemento Armato" ed.Mondadori 2007 and "Bestie" VerdeNero edizioni ambiente 2007.
He is currently a literary consultant to the Mondadori Publishing House.
As a novelist and scriptwriter his works were published by Theoria, MobyDick, ADN Kronos, Walt Disney and Einaudi.
A film (directed by Davide Marengo and Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Valerio Mastandrea, Ennio Fantastichini actors) was created by his novel Notturno Bus. His books are translated in many countries.
His last novel is L’ora dell’incontro edited dy Einaudi - Big di Stile Libero series.
He wrote radiodrama and cooperated with many Italian Tv fictions, among them Distretto di Polizia, l’Ispettore Coliandro and Crimini.
In film industry he cooperated with Roberto Faenza on his film Prendimi l’anima screenplay and wrote, together with Fabio Bonifacci, Notturno bus screenplay.