Alessandro Baricco Biography

Alessandro Baricco is a popular Italian writer director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages.
After receiving degrees in philosophy (under Gianni Vattimo) and piano he published essays on music criticism: Il genio in fuga (1988) on Gioachino Rossini and L'anima di Hegel e le mucche del Wisconsin (Hegel's Soul and the Cows of Wisconsin 1992) on the relation between music and modernity. He subsequently worked as musical critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa and hosted talk shows on Rai Tre.
Baricco debuted as a novelist with Castelli di rabbia (translated as Lands of Glass) in 1991.
In 1993 he co-founded a creative writing school in Turin naming it Scuola Holden after J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield. The Scuola Holden hosts a variety of courses on narrative techniques including screenwriting journalism videogames novels and short stories.
In the following years his fame grew enormously throughout Europe with his works topping the Italian and French best-seller lists. Larger recognition followed the adaptation of his theatrical monologue Novecento into the movie The Legend of 1900 directed by Academy Award-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore.

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