Attilio Veraldi (1925–1999) was an Italian novelist and translator.

Biography

Born in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, Veraldi started his career as a translator of

hardboiled Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...

American novels. He made his writing debut in 1976, with the

giallo In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, ...

novel ''La mazzetta'', which enjoyed an immediate critical and commercial and was later adapted into a film, '' The Payoff''. He is regarded as an original innovator in the giallo genre, being noted for his ironic approach as well as for his realistic portrays of the Neapolitan Camorra underworld and terrorist circles, and as the inspirator of a wave of Neapolitan giallo novelists.

Novels

* ''La mazzetta'' (1976) * ''Uomo di conseguenza'' (1978) * ''Il vomerese'' (1980) * ''Naso di cane'' (1982) * ''L'amica degli amici'' (1984) * ''Donna da Quirinale'' (1990) * ''Scicco'' (1991) * ''L'ombra dell'avventura'' (1992)

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at ''Gialli.it'' * 1925 births 1999 deaths Writers from Naples Italian male novelists Italian mystery writers 20th-century Italian writers 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian translators {{Italy-writer-stub