Alessandro Golinelli

Alessandro Golinelli

Born in Pisa in 1963, Alessandro Golinelli worked as a high school teacher before devoting himself to literature and television (in 2000 he founded the first Italian private gay-themed channel). His novels stand out for their incisive descriptions of society through the numerous characters that populate its narrative universe, rich in sociological connotations and for the solidity of its criticism of the economic system in which we live. Among his homosexual works, we highlight "Kurt sta facendo la farfalla" (1995), on the theme of AIDS, "Angeli" (1996) and "Le rondini di Tunisi" (2005), which runs between Italy and Tunisia, and that it deals with prostitution and immigration. "Come ombre" (1999), an ambitious fresco on contemporary Milanese society, has achieved enormous critical success and has seen several editions in its country of origin.