Biography of Roberto Cotroneo
Roberto Cotroneo was born on 10 May 1961 in Alexandria in Piedmont. In 1985 he started working for the weekly magazine "L'Espresso", while three years later starts a collaboration with "Il Sole 24 Ore", writing in the Sunday newspaper of Confindustria page edited by Armando Torno: for nearly two years, Chaplin signed their book reviews using the pseudonym Mamurio Launcelot, named after the 17th century held in criminal process vicar la Monaca di Monza.
The literary debut and first publications
Become the owner, the address book of literary criticism "Espresso", "index", in 1991 gives the prints his first book, titled "index. On the culture of the eighties", essay published by Armando Editore. Three years later, is responsible for introducing "rules of the day," by Raymond Radiguet, and publish with Fernandez "If a summer morning a child. Letter to my son on the love of books ". In 1995 he began his collaboration with Mondadori, writing the novel "Presto con fuoco", while for the kinds of Anabasis realizes "distrust as a system. Essay on narrative by Umberto Eco ". While continuing his work at the "express", writes "the challenge of silence" in the book of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli "the womb of sound" and "perform Mahler Auditorium" in "Woody Allen volume: elements of passage."Mid-late ' 90
In 1997 he made his second novel with Mondadori, entitled "Otranto", and the following year, again with Mondadori, realize the essay "the unspeakable injury" in the volume of "meridians" dedicated to Giorgio Bassani. In 1999 he writes for the Italian Touring Club "visions and suggestions in Terra d'Otranto", in volume devoted to Lecce and Salento, while in the book by Einaudi "words and songs", by Fabrizio De André published the essay "As an anomaly"; during the same period he completed his only novel as published by Rizzoli, titled "the perfect age."After the 2000
In 2002 Roberto Cotroneo immense public "for a moment I forgot my name", the novel mirrors and on chess, and the essay "Echo: two or three things I know about him," focused on narrative by Umberto Eco. After "ask me who were the Beatles (letter to my son about love for music)" and "fragments of a speech amoroso" on volume "storyteller (all songs)" by Claudio Baglioni, in 2006 it was the turn of "this love" and of "the mystery of the encounter between Sean Connery and Umberto Eco" on volume of Mario Sesti "Sean Connery"; two years later, however, appear in library "the wind of hate", devoted to terrorism from the 1970s to the present, and the ten lectures on creative writing contained in "creative writing" Manual. In 2009 his stories are collected in "Adagio infinity and other tales", Aliberti Editore, suspended and republish "If a summer morning a child", now in its third edition, which contains a new chapter dedicated to Leonardo Sciascia.On television
In 2010 Roberto Cotroneo leads on La7 television program "the 25th hour" and writes for Silvana Editoriale "Kami, the Mission of energy", in collaboration with Daniele Tamagni, while novel comes out in May 2011 and no regrets. The secret of Chet Baker ", which dashed the figure of the famous jazz musician.Chaplin poet
Just over a year later, the journalist and writer gives published his first volume of poems, titled "demons of Otranto", for the Publisher Metamorphosis.The latest works
In 2013 public loving discourse "Tweets" Cotroneo, essay published by Barbera, and "Betty," mystery novel published by Bompiani, set on the French island of Porquerolles and narrated in first person by writer Georges Simenon, in which it is told by a mysterious woman, passionate obsessively by the Belgian author's books, which is suddenly killed. In 2014, the writer publishes with Piedmontese Utet the essay "The dream of writing", Handbook of writing in which, in the form of a novel, we speak of creative processes that lead to the creation of stories.Article contributed by the team of collaborators.