Vittorio Catani (17 July 1940 – 23 November 2020) was an Italian

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

writer.

Career

Born in

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...

, he lived and worked in

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

, Italy. Formerly a bank clerk, he started publishing essays and fiction in 1962, especially within the fantasy and science fiction genres. His first novel, ''Gli universi di Moras'', won the Premio Urania in 1990. He has been published in most major newspapers and magazines, and his works have been translated in a number of European countries. He contributed to the daily newspaper ''

La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno ''La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno'' (lit. "Gazette of the South") is an Italian daily newspaper, founded in 1887 in Bari, Italy. It is one of the leading newspapers published in Southern Italy, with most of its readers living in Apulia and Basilicata ...

'', the environmental quarterly "Villaggio Globale", and was one of the editors of "www.fantascienza.com" and "www.carmillaonline.com". His second science fiction novel, ''Il Quinto Principio'', was published in December 2009, again by ''

Urania Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy, and in later times, of Christian poetry. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, he ...

''. Catani died in Bari on 23 November 2020, at the age of 80.Vittorio Catani non c’è più. Tra i primi a scrivere in Italia di Fantascienza

Works

*''L'eternità e i mostri'' (1972, short stories collection) *''Il gioco dei mondi'' (1985, essay on science fiction) *''Gli universi di Moras'' (1990, novel, winner of Premio Urania) *''I guastatori dell'Eden'' (1993, novel) *''Replay di un amore'' (1994, novel) *''Cronache dal futuro'' (1995, a boy's guide to Italian fantasy fiction) *''Tra cielo e Terra'' (1998, short stories collection) *''Accadde... domani'' (2001, short stories and vignettes collection) *''Storie dal villaggio globale. 21 racconti tra ecologia e fantascienza'' (2004, short environmental stories collection) *''Vengo solo se parlate di Ufi'' (2004, essays on science fiction) *''L'essenza del futuro'' (2007, 63 short stories and novelettes collection 1955/2007) *''Per dimenticare Alessia'' (2007, novel, not science fiction) *''Mi sono perso col cosmo tra le mani'' (2008, essays on science fiction) *''I suoni del silenzio'' (2009, 3 short stories collection) *''Il Quinto Principio'' (2009, novel)

References

External links

Personal blog

Entry at isfdb.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Catani, Vittorio 1940 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian novelists Italian fantasy writers Italian male novelists Italian science fiction writers Italian short story writers People from Lecce 20th-century Italian male writers 21st-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian short story writers