Livio Romano Nardò 1968. Graduated in Law, he works on the cultural section of the daily «Corriere del Mezzogiorno», directs creative writing courses, and teaches English in an elementary school. He published his first stories on the end of the nineties in the anthology Sporco al sole (Besa-Books Brothers). In 2000, he published his essay Da dove vengono le storie (Lindau) and the story “Professional” in the Einaudi Stile Libero anthology Disertori. The following year, again for Einaudi, he released the tale of tales Mistandivò, which was well-received by critics, and that highlights the particular “language game” that intertwines a researched and cultured language to a lower and more popular lexical base. The director Edoardo Winspeare used it for his shortfilm Sale, which was presented at the Biennale di Venezia in 2003.
Publications
Mistandivò (Einaudi 2001); Porto di mare (Sironi, 2002), winner of the “Il Delfino” prize in Pisa; Dove non suonano più i fucili (Big Sur, 2005) a post Bosnian-civil war reportage; Niente da ridere (Marsilio, 2007); Il mare perché corre (Fernandel, 2011), first the novel “on the road”; Diario elementare (Fernandel, 2012), a satirical pamphlet about elementary school.