Attilio Veraldi

Attilio Veraldi (1925 - 1999) was an Italian novelist and translator.

Attilio Veraldi
Born1925
Naples, Italy
Died1999
Monte Carlo, Monaco
OccupationWriter

Biography

Born in Naples, Veraldi started his career as a translator of hardboiled American novels. He made his writing debut in 1976, with the giallo novel La mazzetta, which enjoyed an immediate critical and commercial and was later adapted into a film, The Payoff. He is regarded as an original innovator in the giallo genre, being noted for his ironic approach as well as for his realistic portrays of the Neapolitan Camorra underworld and terrorist circles, and as the inspirator of a wave of Neapolitan giallo novelists.[1][2]

Novels
  • La mazzetta (1976)
  • Uomo di conseguenza (1978)
  • Il vomerese (1980)
  • Naso di cane (1982)
  • L'amica degli amici (1984)
  • Donna da Quirinale (1990)
  • Scicco (1991)
  • L'ombra dell'avventura (1992)

References
  1. Luca Crovi. Tutti i colori del giallo: il giallo italiano da De Marchi a Scerbanenco a Camilleri. Marsilio, 2002. pp. 149–151. ISBN 8831779133.
  2. Massimo Carloni. L'Italia in giallo: geografia e storia del giallo italiano contemporaneo. Diabasis, 1994. pp. 31–46. ISBN 8881030039.


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