Roberto Pazzi


Roberto Pazzi is an Italian novelist and poet. His works have been translated into twentysix languages.
Pazzi graduated in classics in Bologna with a thesis on Luciano Anceschi and aesthetics on the poetry of Umberto Saba. He taught cultural anthropology and the philosophy of history and sociology of art and literature in high school and a college in Ferrara.
His first poems appeared in a poetry anthology in the magazine Arte e poesia in 1970.
His collections of verse are: L'esperienza anteriore, Versi occidentali, Il re, le parole, Calma di vento, Il filo delle bugie, La gravità dei corpi e Talismani.
He published his first novel Cercando l'Imperatore in 1985. The novel was translated into 12 languages and won the Premio Bergamo. He followed Cercando l'Imperatore with various historic novels: La principessa e il drago, La malattia del tempo, Vangelo di Giuda and La stanza sull'acqua.
With Le città del dottor Malaguti he moved his novels to a contemporary setting in the town where the book's narrator lives, Ferrara. After that, he wrote Incerti di viaggio, Domani sarò re, La città volante, Conclave, L'erede, Il signore degli occhi, L'ombra del padre, Qualcuno mi insegue, Le forbici di Solingen, Dopo primavera, and Mi spiacerà morire per non vederti più.
Today, after twelve years of exclusive partnership with Corriere della Sera, Pazzi writes for several newspapers including il Resto del Carlino, La Nazione, Il Giorno and The New York Times''.
Pazzi lives in Ferrara, where he teaches at the university, holds annual creative writing courses and, for Corbo editore, he leads the series of narrative "L'Isola Bianca". He is an active lecturer in the various countries of the world where his work has spread.

Works

Poetry