Luca D'Andrea
Luca D'Andrea (born 1979 in Bolzano ) is an Italian writer and journalist .
Life
Luca D'Andrea works as a teacher at a middle school in Bolzano. He also works as a television journalist and writes scripts for documentaries . Among other things, he shot the production Mountain Heroes for Italian television in 2013 . Gli Eroi delle Dolomiti , a documentary about the everyday life of mountain rescuers in the Dolomites , which also inspired him to write his first thriller .
Under the name GL D'Andrea he wrote three children's books that appeared under the series title Wunderkind . His international breakthrough came with La sostanza del male , his first thriller for adult readers, which he published in 2016 and which was immediately translated into several languages. His second novel, Lissy , received the Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco in 2017 .
Works
- thriller
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La sostanza del male . Turin: Einaudi, 2016, ISBN 978-88-06-22100-3 .
- Death so cold: Thriller (German translation Verena von Koskull ), DVA , Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-421-04759-5 .
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Lissy . Turin: Einaudi, 2017, ISBN 978-88-06-23639-7 .
- Evil, it remains: Thriller (German translation Susanne Van Volxem and Olaf Roth), DVA, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-421-04806-6 .
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Il respiro del sangue . Turin: Einaudi, 2019, ISBN 978-88-06-24155-1 .
- Der Wanderer: Thriller (German translation: Susanne Van Volxem and Olaf Roth), Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60025-1 .
- Children's books
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Wonder child. Una lucida moneta d'argento . Milan: Mondadori, 2009
- Wunderkind - the silver coin (German translation Barbara Neeb and Katharina Schmidt). Baumhaus Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-833-93594-7 .
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Wonder child. La rosa ei tre chiodi . Milan: Mondadori, 2010
- Wunderkind - a rose and three nails (German translation Barbara Neeb and Katharina Schmidt). Baumhaus Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-843-20070-7 .
- Wonder child. Il regno che verrà . Milan: Mondadori, 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Luca D'Andrea in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Luca D'Andrea in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Luca D'Andrea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Luca D'Andrea at perlentaucher.de
- Luca D'Andrea , Interview (PR) at Random House, 2018
- Claudia Morgoglione: Luca D'Andrea: "Altro che idillio, la montagna è dark" , in: La Repubblica, October 24, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ dpa: Dolomites thriller: "Death so cold" . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on November 2, 2018]).
- ↑ Hannes Hintermeier: Tradition meets Scorpio , review, in: FAZ, March 18, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | D'Andrea, Luca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |