Writer, translator, essayist, author of radio and theater plays, has published the novels: Sottotraccia (Mondadori 2000); Nel corpo di Napoli (Mondadori 1999) Premio Napoli, super prize Vittorini, prize La Torre, finalist for the Premio Strega and translated into French and Spanish; Di questa vita menzognera, (Feltrinelli 2003) Premio Campiello, Premio Viareggio-Rèpaci and translated into French and Spanish; Magic People, (Feltrinelli 2005) and Il ribelle in guanti rosa. Charles Baudelaire (Mondadori 2007) Vittorini Prize.

He edited and translated, for the main Italian publishers: Baudelaire, La Fontaine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Flaubert, Gautier, Max Ernst. He has edited and introduced works of Philip K.Dick, Alberto Savinio, Michel Tournier, Curzio Malaparte, Hermann Hesse, Alexandre Dumas, and Ottiero Ottieri. Collaborates with TI Mattino, Il Messaggero and Repubblica.

LETTORI SELVAGGI won the VIAREGGIO REPACI PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2017