Attilio Veraldi (1925–1999) was an Italian novelist and translator.
Biography
Born in
Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...
, Veraldi started his career as a translator of
hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...
American novels. He made his writing debut in 1976, with the
giallo
In Italian cinema, (; : ; from , ) is a genre that often contains Slasher film, slasher, thriller (genre), thriller, psychological horror, psychological thriller, Sexploitation film, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural, supernat ...
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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