Alessandro Perissinotto
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Alessandro Perissinotto (born 1964 in
Biography
After a number of jobs which helped funded his studies he graduated in 1992 in
Italian Literature with a dissertation on semiotics
and starts his research in multimedia, teaching instruments, the language of signs in fairytales, with Gli Attrezzi del Narratore. He publishes Il Dizionario Della Fiaba (Dictionary of the Fairytale) with Gian Paolo Caprettini.
He currently teaches at the University of Turin, having taught in Bergamo for a few years.
He plays football in the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers' national team.
Writing
In 1997, Perissinotto started to publish crime fiction books.
The first novel is L'anno che uccisero Rosetta, set in the 1960s in Cantoira, a small village in the Valli di Lanzo (
Premio Grinzane Cavour
(2005) for Italian fiction.
In the following three novels Una piccola storia ignobile, L'ultima notte bianca and L'orchestra del Titanic, all published by
Olympics
in Turin shows the existence of a city periphery inhabited by hardworking people but excluded from the main celebrations, and most of all by a large number of young people who live in extreme poverty and eek a living from drugs and prostitution.
Main works
- Al mio giudice (winner of Grinzane Cavour Prize in 2005 and Chianti Literary Prize in 2006), (2005)[3]
- Per vendetta, Rizzoli (2009)
- Semina il vento, Piemme (2011)
- Lo sguardo oltre l'orizzonte, Banca del Piemonte Editore (2011)
- Le colpe dei padri, Piemme (2013)
- Coordinate d'oriente, Piemme (2014)
- Il treno per Tallinn, Mondadori, 2016
- Quello che l'acqua nasconde, Piemme (2017)
- La neve sotto la neve, Mondadori, 2017
- Parigi lato ferrovia, Contromano, Laterza, 2018
- Il silenzio della collina, Mondadori, 2019
Historical crime fiction
- L'anno che uccisero Rosetta, Sellerio editore, (1997)
- La Canzone di Colombano, Sellerio editore, (Premio Fedeli, 2001), (2000)
- Treno 8017, Sellerio editore, (2003)
Anna Pavesi's trilogy
- Una piccola storia ignobile, Rizzoli (Premio Camaiore di Letteratura Gialla, 2006), (2006) [in English as Blood Sisters, Hersilia Press, 2011]
- L'ultima notte bianca, Rizzoli, (2007)
- L'orchestra dei Titanic, Rizzoli, (2008)
Non fiction
- Il testo multimediale, Utet Libreria (2000)
- Metamorfosi della rete, Bergamo University Press (2001)
- Come creare corsi on line, Carocci, (with Barbara Bruschi) (2003)
- Gli attrezzi del narratore, Rizzoli (2005)
- La società dell'indagine, Bompiani (2008)
Awards
"Al mio giudice" Rizzoli 2004 Premio Letterario Chianti 2005 Premio Letterario Chianti 2005/2006 · 19ª EDIZIONE [3]
References
- ^ "Alessandro Perissinotto". MilanoNera (in Italian). May 23, 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^ Demets, Mikaël (March 31, 2008). "INTERVIEW D'ALESSANDRO PERISSINOTTO". Evene.fr (in French). Retrieved May 26, 2019 – via Le Figaro.
- ^ a b "list of finalists and winners". Premio Letterario Chianti (in Italian). Retrieved May 26, 2019.
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