Renato Olivieri (4 August 1925 – 8 February 2013) was an Italian novelist and journalist. Born in 1925 in Sanguinetto,

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, Olivieri spent his childhood in

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and at 14 he moved to

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, where he lived until his death in 2013. A professional journalist, he directed several magazines for the editor Mondadori. He debuted as a writer in 1978, 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, ...

- noir novel ''Il caso Kodra'' (''The Kodra Case''); the main character of the novel, the Inspector Ambrosio, became in a short time one of the most famous detectives in Italian literature, with a total of 15 novels about his investigations written by Olivieri between 1978 and 1998. A film based on the character, ''

Days of Inspector Ambrosio ''Days of Inspector Ambrosio'' (Italian: ''I giorni del commissario Ambrosio'') is a 1988 Italian crime film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is loosely based on several novels written by Renato Olivieri. Plot A few days before Inspector Ambrosi ...

'', was released in 1988, with Ugo Tognazzi in the title role.

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