Born in Naples into a family
that has lived there for generations,
I nonentheless have a drop of Swiss-German blood.
At age three, I started to change cities.
I hold a degree in philosophy, having studied the sociology of art
and literature, cultural anthropology,
social and language psychology,
with a thesis on Gordon Craig’s theory of the actor.
Then I began to write.
I worked as a reporter in a daily newspaper.
Then as a copywriter in an advertising agency.
I didn’t like the way things were advertised, so I set up an agency
with my art director to do things differently.
I have thaught at Rome’s La Sapienza University.
I have published two essays on communication
which are also university texts;
a novel based on the true story
of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem,
translated into 11 languages including Hebrew and Arabic;
then the true story told as a novel
of the trial of the ‘cold-eyed bocconiano’;
a surreal short story
that takes up the witness accounts of the tortures
suffered by the protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa,
nominated in the United States for the Pushcart Prize;
and a novel inspired
by three gender fluid teenagers
who let me enter into the chaos of their lives.
Born in Naples into a family
that has lived there for generations,
I nonenthless have a drop of Swiss-German blood.
At age three, I started to change cities.
I hold a degree in philosophy,
having studied the sociology of art
and literature, cultural anthropology,
social and language psychology,
and with a thesis on Gordon Craig’s theory of the actor.
Then I began to write.
I worked as a reporter in a daily newspaper.
Then as a copywriter in an advertising agency.
I didn’t like advertising,
so I set up an agency with my art director
to make it different.
I have taught at Rome’s La Sapienza University.
I have published two essays on communication
which are also university texts;
a novel based on the true story
of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem,
translated into 11 languages including Hebrew and Arabic;
then the true story told as a novel
of the trial of the ‘cold-eyed bocconiano’;
a surreal short story
that takes up the witness accounts of the tortures
suffered by the protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa,
nominated in the United States for the Pushcart Prize;
and a novel inspired
by three gender fluid teenagers
who let me enter into the chaos of their lives.
Born in Naples into a family
that has lived there for generations,
I nonentheless have a drop of Swiss-German blood.
At age three, I started to change cities.
I hold a degree in philosophy,
having studied the sociology of art
and literature,
cultural anthropology,
social and language psychology,
and with a dissertation on
Gordon Craig’s theory of the actor.
Then I began to write.
I worked as a reporter
in a daily newspaper.
Then as a copywriter
in an advertising agency.
I didn’t the way things were advertised,
so I set up an agency with my art director to do things differently.
I have tought at Rome’s La Sapienza University.
I have published two essays on communication
which are also university texts;
a novel based on the true story
of a suicide bombing in Jerusalem,
translated into 11 languages including Hebrew and Arabic;
then the true story told as a novel
of the trial of the ‘cold-eyed bocconiano’;
a surreal short story
that takes up witness accounts of the tortures
suffered by the protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa,
nominated in the United States for the Pushcart Prize;
and a novel inspired
by three gender fluid teenagers
who let me enter into the chaos of their lives.