Serena Dandini is an Italian television host, writer and author.
Life
She was born in
Rome
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. She studied at
Giulio Cesare school and
Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a Public university, public research university l ...
.
From the early 1980s, she collaborated with
RAI
RAI – Radiotelevisione italiana (; commercially styled as Rai since 2000; known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane) is the national public broadcasting company of Italy, owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. RAI operates many terr ...
on television and radio programs. She is the creator on
Radio 2 ''of The Life of Mae West, where'' she worked with
Laura Betti
Laura Betti ( Trombetti; 1 May 1927 – 31 July 2004) was an Italian actress known particularly for her work with directors Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci. She had a long friendship with Pasolini and made a document ...
.
In 1995 she hosted the
Sanremo Music Festival 1995
The Sanremo Music Festival 1995 was the 45th annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, province of Imperia, in the late February 1995 and broadcast by Rai 1.
The show was presented by Pippo Baudo, who also served as th ...
, with
Luciano De Crescenzo
Luciano De Crescenzo (; 18 August 1928 – 18 July 2019) was an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.
Biography
Born in Naples, he grew up with actor Bud Spencer. De Crescenzo graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy un ...
,
Fabio Fazio
Fabio Fazio (; born 30 November 1964) is an Italian television presenter. After debuting in 1982, he presented many TV programs, including ''Quelli che... il Calcio'', ''Vieni via con me'' and ''Quello che (non) ho''. Since 2003, he presents the ...
and
Gianni Ippoliti
Gianni Ippoliti (born 22 February 1950) is an Italian television presenter, television writer, actor and writer.
Life and career
Born in Rome, a former football referee and a graduate in sociology,Giorgio Dell’Arti, Massimo Parrini. "Ippoli ...
Beginning in 2001 she was artistic director of the
Teatro Ambra Jovinelli
The Teatro Ambra Jovinelli (literally "Ambra Jovinelli Theater"), formerly known just as Teatro Jovinelli, is a theatre located in Rome, Italy.
It was founded by the theater organizer Giuseppe Jovinelli, who intended to build a theater devoted t ...
in Rome. She was on the jury of the
Sanremo Music Festival 2013
The Sanremo Music Festival 2013 (''63° Festival della Canzone Italiana di Sanremo 2013'') was the 63rd annual Sanremo Music Festival, a televised song contest held at the Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, Liguria, between 12 and 16 February 2013 and b ...
.
Since the 2004, she has been hosting her first talk show on Raitre, ''Parla con me'', conceived with the journalist
Andrea Salerno
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew.
Origin of the name
The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that re ...
and together with a group of authors.
She was the host of ''The States General'', a satire television show, which returned in 2019.
She is the author of "Vieni avanti, cretina", and ''Sisters Don't Sleep'', about gender-based violence.
Works
* ''Lorenzo e la maturità. Come secernere agli esami, con Corrado Guzzanti'', Milano, BUR senzafiltro, 2005, ISBN 88-17-00584-3.
* ''Amo, con Neri Marcorè'', Milano, BUR senzafiltro, 2006, ISBN 88-17-00938-5.
* ''Parla con me''. on Dvd, Milano, BUR, 2007, ISBN 978-88-17-01699-5.
* ''L'ottavo nano''. on 5 Dvd (versione integrale del programma), Milano, BUR, 2009, ISBN 978-88-17-02379-5.
* ''Dai diamanti non nasce niente. Storie di vita e di giardini'', Milano, Rizzoli, 2011, ISBN 978-88-17-04867-5.
* ''Grazie per quella volta. Confessioni di una donna difettosa,'' Milano, Rizzoli, 2012, ISBN 978-88-17-05818-6.
*'' Ferite a morte, collaborazione ai testi e alle ricerche di Maura Misiti'', Milano, Rizzoli, 2013, ISBN 978-88-17-06561-0.
* ''Il futuro di una volta'', Milano, Rizzoli, 2015, ISBN 978-88-17-07268-7.
* ''Avremo sempre Parigi. Passeggiate sentimentali in disordine alfabetico'', Milano, Rizzoli, 2016, ISBN 978-88-17-09020-9.
* ''Il catalogo delle donne valorose'', Milano, Rizzoli, 2018, ISBN 978-88-0468-765-8.
* ''La vasca del Führer,'' Torino, Einaudi, 2020, ISBN 978-88-06-24282-4.
References
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1954 births
Living people
Italian television presenters
Italian women writers