Alessandro Perissinotto (born 1964 in Turin) is an Italian writer, translator and university professor.

Biography

After a number of jobs which helped funded his studies he graduated in 1992 in Italian Literature with a dissertation on semiotics and starts his research in multimedia, teaching instruments, the language of signs in fairytales, with Gli Attrezzi del Narratore. He publishes Il Dizionario Della Fiaba (Dictionary of the Fairytale) with Gian Paolo Caprettini.

He currently teaches at the University of Turin, having taught in Bergamo for a few years.

He plays football in the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers' national team.

Writing

In 1997, Perissinotto started to publish crime fiction books.

The first novel is L'anno che uccisero Rosetta, set in the 1960s in Cantoira, a small village in the V…Read more on Wikipedia