Enrico Vaime (19 January 1936 – 28 March 2021) was an Italian author, playwright, screenwriter, television and radio writer and presenter. Born in

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, after graduating in law in 1960 Vaime was employed by

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, but he resigned almost immediately in order to have a wider artistic freedom. In 1963 he debuted as a playwright with the comedy '' I piedi al caldo'', which was banned by Italian censorship shortly after its first representation at the Festival of Two Worlds in

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. In 1971 he started a proficuous collaboration with the writer

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; their

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, ''Amore significa'', was a bestseller and got over thirty editions. From 1977, the couple also wrote a series of musicals and comedy plays for Garinei & Giovannini. Vaime is also author of several essays, notably ''Il varietà è morto'' (1989). He is the author and presenter, since 1978, of the variety show ''Black Out'', one of the longest running radio programs in Italy.

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