Biography of Corrado Augias

Culture, riddles and religions

January 26, 1935 Corrado Augias was born in Rome the day January 26, 1935. In the early 1960s join the movement of the Roman theatre with the "Teatro del 101" directed by Antonio Calenda; for the theatre of 101 writes "Memoirs" and "Reflections of Knowledge Management", played by Gigi Proietti. Back then to write again for the stage in 1984 with "Honest Iago", staged by the teatro stabile of Genoa (directed by Marco Sciaccaluga, with Eros Pagni in the role of Jago). During his career as a journalist has spent several years Corrado Augias abroad: first in Paris and then in New York; in the great American metropolis is a correspondent of the weekly "L'Espresso" and the newspaper "La Repubblica". He has also worked as a special correspondent for "Panorama". In 1968, the day June 6, is located at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Robert Kennedy was assassinated and live news. Lives and in recent years has witnessed the epochal change that culminates in the so-called movement "of sixty-eight". Back again in New York in the mid-70 's to prepare the Office of correspondence from X men of "Republic", which would arrive on newsstands January 14, 1976. Augias is author and host of television programmes of cultural diffusion, some good success: among these are "yellow phone" (from 1987 to 1992), from which she made into a book, a homonymous collection of cases dealt with on the show, and the cultural program "Babel", devoted entirely to books. For TMC in 1994 writes and conducts "Domino". Together with Luciano Rispoli, Sandro Curzi and Federico Falls, conducts a series of tv shows involving the main political leaders, during an election campaign. Leads for several seasons on Rai Tre Strip lasting about 30 minutes "stories-Italian journal", which is a cultural diverse topics daily, from music, to literature, to the recent history and the Visual Arts. Always on Rai Tre since 2005 leads periodically "Enigma", transmission dedicated to facts and figures of the past. Finally leads the ' stories ' within ' Cominciamo bene ", aired in the morning. Crime writer, writer Corrado Augias is the author of a trilogy set in the early decades of the twentieth century and having as protagonist John Sallis (half brother of Andrew, star of "the pleasure" of Gabriele D'Annunzio); the stocks that make up the trilogy are "that train from Vienna" (1981), "The blue handkerchief" (1983), "the last spring" (1985). His other novels are "Seven near-perfect crimes" (1989), "a girl for the night" (1992), "that morning of July" (1995) and "Tre colonne in cronaca" (1987, written with his wife Daniela meals). Augias also writes in 1983 the book "newspapers and spies. International Wheeler-dealers, corrupt journalists and secret societies in Italy of the great war ", in which reconstructs an espionage affair actually took place in 1917. Wrote and published several essays in which cultural and artistic themes deepening details little-known about history, costume, and the charm of some of the major metropolises: the secrets of Paris "(1996)," secrets of New York "(2000)," the secrets of London "(2003) and" the secrets of Rome "(2005). In 1998 he writes an essay-story titled "The winged Traveler", which focuses on the life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani Leghorn; the title is taken from a verse of a poem by Baudelaire, "l'albatros" loved and often repeated, Modigliani. In 2006, in collaboration with the bolognese Professor Mauro Pesce, published the book "Inchiesta su Gesù" in which he faces, in the form of a dialogue between the two co-authors, the many aspects more or less known of the person and the central character of the Christian religion. The book sold many copies and fuelled much controversy between the Catholic communities, so much so that Peter John Ciavarella and Valerio Bernardi one year writing another book entitled "A response to inquiry about Jesus." Subsequent titles are: "reading. Because books make us better, happier and freer "(2007), a passionate and reasoned defense of reading; "Inquiry about Christianity. How do you build a religion "(2008), in which he talks about the development of Christianity in history with Remo Cacitti, Professor of ancient Christian literature and history of early Christianity at the University of Milan; "Disputa su Dio e dintorni" (2009, coauthor along with Vito Mancuso), volume where there have been accusations of plagiarism against the essay "the creation" by Edward Osborne Wilson; "Secrets of the Vatican. Stories, places, characters of a millennial power "(2010), book in which he faces through the events the most significant of the long history of the Church the problem of the relationship between spiritual and temporal power. In a long career in journalism, television and literary Corrado Augias, is also an interlude of political commitment: 1994 European elections as an independent candidate on the lists of the Democratic Party of the left, he was elected member of the European Parliament, a position he held until 1999. Among the many awards received during his career stand out above all the order of merit of the Italian Republic (2002), the title of Knight of the Grand Cross (2006) and the Légion d'honneur of the French Republic (2007).
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