The Bolognese writer Valerio Evangelisti passed away at the age of 69

Valerio Evangelisti is no more»: The journalist from Radio 3 Loredana Lipperini. The presenter added: «He was a teacher, a friend, a fellow traveler. He imagined unthinkable ways for non-realistic fiction, but not only. He was a great writer, a political writer through and through. He was a friend. Hasta siempre, brother“.

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The writer of fantasy and horror he would have turned 70 on June 20but he had talked about the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma type B in the biographical novel Day hospital (Joints publisher). Founder of the Carmilla online criticism site, he achieved notoriety with the franchise ofInquisitor Nicolas Eymerich (eleven novels translated into more than ten languages), later confirmed by the success of Nostradamus.

Anti-fascist activist in training Power to the people (of which he was national coordinator), the Bolognese artist is remembered as a political intellectual and communist militant. Since the nineties he has been part of the so-called New Italian Epic, a contemporary current of Italian literati. Graduated in political science, he also embarked on an academic career starting from writing essays and then moving on to fiction.

Won the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and the Prix ​​Tour Eiffel, two of the most iconic French awards in the fantasy genre. Among the other awards won during his career also the Prix ​​Italy for radio fiction.

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