Attilio Veraldi (1925–1999) was an Italian novelist and translator.
Biography
Born in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, 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
underworld and terrorist circles, and as the inspirator of a wave of Neapolitan giallo novelists.
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
External links
Profileat ''Gialli.it''
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1925 births
1999 deaths
Writers from Naples
Italian male novelists
Italian mystery writers
20th-century Italian writers
20th-century Italian male writers
20th-century Italian translators
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