Sandrone Dazieri


Sandrone Dazieri is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series, an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film.

Biography

He was born in Cremona in 1964. He graduated at San Pellegrino Terme hotel-management school and worked as a cook for ten years, all around Italy.
After having moved to Milan he started working in a number of jobs, from seller to porter, and played a very active role in the movement of Milan social centers.
In 1992 he got closer to publishing working as a proofreader for Telepress editorial service, and after five years he was appointed general manager of Milan branch. He also worked as a freelance journalist and collaborated with Manifesto as an expert of counterculture and genre fiction.
In 1999 he achieved his first popular success with the thriller Attenti al gorilla , the first in a best-seller series, where the main character is a sort of doppelgänger of Dazieri himself, living the nightlife in Milan with all the ensuing troubles.
Dazieri's books are renowned for the rocambolesque adventures in which Sandrone is continuously involved, in an irrefrenable but never fatalistic destiny. It is in fact Sandrone's personality that always drives him to assist the weak and derelict, those who have lost all hope for help but for the Gorilla's saving hand. Among a thousand contradictions, he'll confront all sorts of dangers, in the best tradition of hardboiled thrillers, and aided by his alter ego called Socio, our hero will happily finalise and conclude many chilling and hair-raising situations.
He wrote two other noir novels, a novel for kids, some scripts for comics and many short stories.
His last novels are: E' stato un attimo, Cemento Armato and Bestie.
He is also a scriptwriter; among his films are La cura del Gorilla directed by Carlo A. Sigon and interpreted by Claudio Bisio, Un gioco da ragazze directed by Matteo Rovere and L'ultima Battuta, a TV movie.
With Italian film director Gabriele Salvatores and producer Maurizio Totti, Dazieri founded in 2004 the publishing house Colorado Noir.
From 2000 to 2004 he was also the chief editor of the crime series Gialli Mondadori ' and the catalogue for young readers Libri per Ragazzi Mondadori '. He is currently a literary consultant to the Mondadori Publishing House.

Screenwriting