Giovanni Arduino

Writer. Freelance editor, consultant, translator.
Novels published in Italy, USA, Japan, Germany, Spain, spanning various genres (young adult, dark fantasy, modern fables, pop culture, literary erotica) under many different pseudonyms (Joe Arden, Jonathan Snow et al), mostly with an edgy and quirky slant. More than 500,000 copies sold in Italy alone. Since 2003 writing under his own name because he got fed up with all those monickers.
First editor, then senior editor, and from 1997 to 2006 consulting and editing (as resident editor-at-large) for Sperling & Kupfer Editori/Frassinelli 's young adult, media tie-in and general fiction/non-fiction lines. He recently left Sperling & Kupfer for newborn Elliot Edizioni in Rome.
Heavily tattoed. Dresses in black. Charming disposition.
Check out his site/weblog at Giovanniarduino.com (in Italian) or his personal pages on Publishers Marketplace and on Seth Godin's Squidoo (both in English).
Recently published novels
Chiudimi le labbra (Seal My Lips, 2005), tagged as a one-of-a-kind novel about love, sex, information overload, and the trick of breathing underwater, sold to Simone Caltabellota, Lain Books , at auction, by Roberto Santachiara of Roberto Santachiara Literary Agency.

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Mai come voi (Never Like You, 2004), a dark yet uplifting delicate miniature of a novel, compared both to Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones and Niccolo' Ammaniti's Io non ho paura (with a dash of Tim Burton to boot), sold to Sperling & Kupfer Editori in a major deal. Three printings (as of February 2005). Longlisted for the 2004 Campiello Prize.
"Mai come voi is a desperate cry for love, a cry piercing your very soul and slamming open doors you were sure to have double-locked since your angsty teenage years" (La Stampa/T7)
"Giovanni Arduino is Italian literature's own Tim Burton. Mai come voi is a total original: lyrical, sad but full of magic, and somewhat strangely cozy" (Il Corriere del Mezzogiorno)
"A superbly accomplished, modern gothic fable about being and feeling different from the rest of the world" (Il Secolo XIX)
"Sweet and dreamy but with a bold black heart, Mai come voi is a big, resolute NO! to an uncaring, unconcerned world. It's a brave, spunky act of denial, and a pretty tough act to follow" (La Gazzetta di Parma)
"A touching, bittersweet love story... a coming of age novel encased in a mystery" (Informagiovani)
Buy Chiudimi le labbra on Ibs
Buy Mai come voi on Ibs
For more recent stuff (as my new serialized novel Senza te non sono niente), please visit my blog/site (in Italian) and/or this very blog on MySpace. See ya.
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