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Roberto Saviano (Italian: [roˈbɛrto saˈvjaːno]; born 22 September 1979) is an Italian writer, essayist, journalist, and screenwriter. In his writings, including articles and his book Gomorrah , he uses literature and investigative reporting to tell of the economic reality of the territory and business of organized crime in Italy , in particular the Camorra crime syndicate , and of ...
Jul 6, 2015 · July 6, 2015. Phil Toledano. Meeting Roberto Saviano, the Italian investigative journalist and anti-Mafia crusader, is no simple matter. Ever since the Camorra, the Neapolitan mob, took out a ...
Wikimedia Commons Roberto Saviano in 2007. Born in Naples in 1979, Roberto Saviano grew up in an environment ruled by violent Neapolitan gangs — a Mafia-esque organization called the Camorra. The Casalesi clan ruled over Casal di Principe, the Naples suburb where he grew up, dumping toxic waste, drug trafficking, and smuggling weapons and people.
Roberto Saviano's explosive revelations about the Camorra of Naples- a racket he says is bigger than Sicily's Mafia - have led to death threats and, belatedly, an armed guard. By Peter Popham reports
Oct 28, 2023 · The 44-year-old Italian writer and commentator Roberto Saviano is used to having powerful enemies. Over the course of a career spent exposing organized crime and its links to the state and the legitimate economy, Saviano has brought resistance to the Camorra and other Italian criminal enterprises into mainstream discourse.
May 8, 2024 · Roberto Saviano has received numerous prizes for his work, including, in 2011, the PEN/Pinter Prize and the Olof Palme Prize and, in 2019, the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award for Freedom of Expression. He continues to work out of hotel rooms and secure locations, maintaining his journalistic focus on organised crime.
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Roberto Saviano has written under various authorial guises, moving from essayist, to novelist and screenwriter when deemed fit. Undaunted by threats made on ...
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