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Roberto Saviano

January 31, 2023

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 organized crime more generally.

Roberto Saviano
Saviano in 2019
Born (1979-09-22) 22 September 1979 (age 43)
Naples, Italy
Occupation
  • Writer
  • journalist
  • screenwriter
NationalityItalian
Period2000–present
Notable works
Website
robertosaviano.com

After receiving death threats in 2006 made by the Casalesi clan of the Camorra, a clan which he had denounced in his exposé and in the piazza of Casal di Principe during a demonstration in defense of legality,[1] Saviano was put under a strict security protocol. Since 13 October 2006, he has lived under police protection.[2]

Saviano has collaborated with numerous important Italian and international newspapers. Currently, he writes for the Italian publications l'Espresso, la Repubblica, and The Post Internazionale. Internationally, he collaborates in the United States with The Washington Post,[3] The New York Times,[4] and Time;[5] in Spain with El Pais;[6] in Germany with Die Zeit[7] and Der Spiegel;[8] in Sweden with Expressen;[9] and in the United Kingdom with The Times[10] and The Guardian.[11]

His writing has drawn praise from many important writers and other cultural figures, such as Umberto Eco.[12]

Saviano identifies as an atheist.[13]

Biography

 
Saviano grew up near Caserta.

Son of Luigi Saviano, a Neapolitan doctor, and Miriam Haftar, a Ligurian of Jewish origins,[14][15][16] Roberto Saviano received his high school diploma from the Armando Diaz State Scientific High School and then graduated in philosophy from the University of Naples Federico II, where he was the student of historian Francesco Barbagallo.[17] He began his career in journalism in 2002, writing for numerous magazines and daily papers, including Pulp, Diario, Sud, Il manifesto, the website Nazione Indiana, and for the Camorra monitoring unit of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno. His articles at the time were already important enough to spur judicial authorities at the beginning of 2005 to listen to him regarding organized crime.[18]

In March 2006, he published Gomorrah, a novel inspired by real events. He is the author, along with Mario Gelardi, of a theatrical work of the same name and is a screenwriter for Gomorrah, the movie based on the novel.[19] On 10 December 2009, in the presence of Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, Saviano received the title of Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and the Second Level Academic Diploma Honoris Causa in Communication and Art Education, which is the highest degree given by the university. On 22 January 2011, the University of Genoa awarded him a bachelor's degree honoris causa in law "for the important contribution to the fight against crime and to the defense of legality in our country". Saviano dedicated the honor to the judges of Milan's district attorney's office who were investigating Rubygate. This led to a controversy with Marina Berlusconi, daughter of Silvio Berlusconi and president of the publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori Editore.[20][21]

Saviano is primarily influenced by southern Italian intellectuals such as Giustino Fortunato and Gaetano Salvemini,[22] by the anarchists Errico Malatesta and Mikhail Bakunin, and by poet Rocco Scotellaro. Additionally, he has said that his educational background includes many prominent writers such as Ernst Jünger, Ezra Pound, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Carl Schmitt, and Julius Evola.[23][24]

In 2015, Saviano collaborated with the Neapolitan playwright Mimmo Borrelli on the play Sanghenapule – Vita straordinaria di San Gennaro, which was part of the 2015/2016 season of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan.

In 2006, following the success of Gomorrah, which denounces the activities of the Camorra, Saviano received ominous threats. These were confirmed by police informants and reports that revealed attempts on Saviano's life by the Casalesi clan. Investigators have claimed that the Camorra selected Casalesi clan boss Giuseppe Setola to kill Saviano.

After the Neapolitan police investigations, the Italian Minister for Interior Affairs Giuliano Amato assigned Saviano a personal bodyguard and transferred him from Naples. In the fall of 2008, informant Carmine Schiavone, cousin of the imprisoned Casalesi clan boss Francesco Schiavone, revealed to the authorities that the clan had planned to eliminate Saviano and his police escort by Christmas on the motorway between Rome and Naples with a bomb; in the same period, Saviano announced his intention to leave Italy in order to stop having to live as a convict and reclaim his life.

On 20 October 2008, six Nobel Prize-awarded authors and intellectuals (Orhan Pamuk, Dario Fo, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Desmond Tutu, Günter Grass, and Mikhail Gorbachev) published an article saying that they sided with Saviano against the Camorra. They also stated that the Italian government must protect Saviano's life and help him lead a normal life. Signatures were collected on the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.[25]

Saviano contributed an op-ed piece to the 24 January 2010 issue of the New York Times, entitled "Italy's African Heroes". He wrote about the January 2010 riots between African immigrants and Italians in Rosarno, a town in Calabria. Saviano suggests that the rioting was more of a response to the migrants' exploitation by the 'Ndrangheta, or Calabrian mafia, than to the hostility of Italians.

In November 2010, he hosted, along with Fabio Fazio, the Italian television program Vieni via con me, which was broadcast over four weeks by Rai 3.

Saviano's book, ZeroZeroZero [it] was published by Feltrinelli in 2013, and the English translation was published by Penguin Random House in July 2015. This book is a study of the financial dealings around cocaine, covering its movement across continents and the role of drug money in international finance.

Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero

 It's my reader who bothers criminal organizations, it's not me. My reader is what they don't want. The fact that, in this moment, we are talking about it, that all the newspapers talked about it, that books continue to be published, and that documentaries continue to come out is what they don't want; they don't want attention on themselves, on their names, and, above all, on their businesses.

— Roberto Saviano on his book Gomorrah

 
Roberto Saviano in 2011

In March 2006, Saviano's first book, Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System, was published as part of Mondadori's Strade Blu series. It describes the business and criminal world of the Camorra and of the places where the organization was born and exists:[26] the region of Campania, the city of Naples, the towns of Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d'Aversa, and the territory around Aversa known as the agro aversano. Having grown up there, the author introduces the reader to a reality unknown to outsiders. The book talks about the criminal bosses' sumptuous villas copied from Hollywood films, rural lands filled with the toxic waste of half of Europe, and a population that not only cohabitates with organised crime but even protects it and approves of its actions.[27]

As of August 2009, the book had sold 2.5 million copies in Italy alone and was translated into 52 languages. In the rest of the world, about 2 million copies of Gomorrah were sold. It was present on bestseller lists in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Albania, Israel, Lebanon, and Austria.

A stage show was based on Gomorrah, earning Saviano the best actor of a new Italian play award at the Olimpici del Teatro/Theater Olympics in 2008. A film of the same name, directed by Matteo Garrone, was also created; it won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.[28] In 2009, the film won the Tonino Guerra Prize for best script at the Bari International Film Festival.

A television show titled Gomorrah - La serie was produced by Sky Italia, Fandango, Cattleya, Beta Film, and LA7, under the supervision of Saviano and the direction of Stefano Sollima, Francesca Comencini, and Claudio Cupellini. It ran for five series, commencing in 2014 and concluding in 2021.[29]

In 2016, the same production crew began filming ZeroZeroZero, an adaptation of Saviano's 2013 book of the same name about the international cocaine trade.

Threats and life under police protection

The success of his book created numerous problems for Saviano, starting with threatening letters, silent phone calls, and protective isolation.

During a demonstration for legality in Casal di Principe on 23 September 2006, the writer denounced the business of the leaders of the Casalese clan, Francesco Bidognetti and Francesco Schiavone (currently in prison), and the two ruling bosses at the time, Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria. He addressed them in robust tones ("You are not from this land! Quit being part of this land!") and invited residents to rebel. Because of the threats and intimidation Saviano received consequently, the then-Minister of the Interior, Giuliano Amato, decided to assign him police protection beginning on 13 October 2006.

 
Roberto Saviano during a Rai 3 television program.

On 14 March 2008, during the Spartacus Trial, the attorney for Casalese bosses Francesco Bidognetti and Antonio Iovine, Michele Santonastaso (assisted by Carmine D'Aniello), read a letter written jointly by Bidognetti and Iovine (while both were in prison) to the president of the First Section of the Appellate Court of Assizes, Raimondo Romeres. The letter contained a request to move the trial due to legittima suspicione, or doubt surrounding the impartiality of the judicial body, caused by the alleged influence of Roberto Saviano, Rosaria Capacchione, and the district attorneys Federico Cafiero de Raho and Raffaele Cantone, on the judges.[30] Following this, Minister of the Interior Amato decided to strengthen security measures for the writer, increasing his police escort from three to five men. Bidognetti and Iovine, and their attorneys Michele Santonastaso and Carmine D'Aniello, were then charged with intimidation of Saviano and Capacchione. Before the third criminal section of the Court of Naples, the Assistant Prosecutor of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate (DDA), Antonello Ardituro, requested the maximum sentence on conviction of one year and six months imprisonment. The sentence was passed for Bidognetti, Santonastaso, and D'Aniello, while Iovine was acquitted due to insufficient proof. The attorney general for Reggio Calabria, Federico Cafiero de Raho, testified during the trial, stating that Saviano was a "mortal enemy of the clan" and recalling that Saviano was among the few journalists present at all 52 of the prosecutor's closing speeches for the Spartacus Trial.

On 14 October 2008, reports emerged of a possible assassination plot against Saviano. A police inspector of the Milan Anti-Mafia Investigation Department DIA) informed the DDA that the pentito, Carmine Schiavone (cousin of boss Francesco Schiavone, aka Sandokan), had informed him of a plan, already in operation, to kill the writer and his bodyguards before Christmas through a spectacular attack on the highway between Rome and Naples,[31] in the style of the assassination of anti-Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone at Capaci. However, when interrogated by magistrates, Schiavone denied any knowledge of the plan, provoking the writer's immediate response: "It's obvious that he'd say this; if he were to talk [about the plan], it would mean implicitly admitting to still having connections with organized crime". Subsequently, the district attorney heading the investigation requested and obtained dismissal of the case as the reports appeared to be unfounded, although Schiavone confirmed that Saviano had been condemned to death by the Casalese clan.[32]

In October 2008, Saviano decided to leave Italy for a time,[33] as the result of threats, which were confirmed by reports and statements from informants, revealing a Casalesi clan plan to eliminate him.

I believe I have the right to a break. Over the years, I have thought that giving in to the temptation to retreat was neither a very good idea nor, above all, an intelligent one. I believed that it was rather stupid—in addition to being improper—to give up, to bend to men who are nothing, people whom you abhor for what they think, for how they act, for how they live, and for their very being. But, in this moment, I don't see any reason why I should insist on living in this way, as a prisoner of myself, of my book, of my success. Fuck success. I want a life. That's it. I want a house. I want to fall in love, to drink a beer in public, to go to a bookstore and to choose a book by reading the cover. I want to go for a stroll, to sunbathe, to walk under the rain, to meet people without fear and without frightening my mother. I want to be surrounded by my friends, to be able to laugh, and to not have to talk about myself, always about myself as though I were terminally ill and they were struggling with a boring, yet inevitable, visit. Damn it, I'm only twenty-eight years old! And I still want to write, write, write because it's my passion and my resistance. And in order to write, I need to plunge my hands into reality, to cover myself in it, to smell its odor and its sweat, and to not live quarantined in a hyperbolic chamber inside military barracks—today here, tomorrow two hundred kilometers away, moved like a package without knowing what happened and what can happen. A perennial state of bewilderment and insecurity keeps me from thinking, reflecting, concentrating on what I have to do. Sometimes I surprise myself thinking these words: I want my life back. I silently repeat them, one by one, to myself.[34]

— Roberto Saviano

Appeal from Nobel Prize winners

 
Roberto Saviano signing his books in Turin, 2013.

People unfamiliar with Camorra power dynamics often think that killing an innocent person is a naive gesture on the part of the clans because it only legitimizes and amplifies the victim's example and words, a confirmation of the truths he spoke. Wrong. That's never the way it is. As soon as you die in the land of the Camorra, you're enshrouded in countless suspicions, and innocence is a distant hypothesis, the last one imaginable. You are guilty until proven innocent. In the land of the Camorra, the theory of modern rights is turned on its head.

— (Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah, translated by Virginia Jewiss)

On 20 October 2008, six international Nobel Prize winners rallied in support of Roberto Saviano,[35] asking the Italian government to do something to protect him and to defeat the Camorra, and emphasizing the fact that organized crime is not merely a problem for police that only concerns the writer, but is a problem for democracy that concerns all free citizens. The appeal concluded that citizens cannot tolerate the fact that the events described in Saviano's book are taking place in 2008 in Europe, just as they can't tolerate that the price one pays for denouncing these events means losing one's freedom and safety. The Nobel Prize winners who launched the appeal were: Dario Fo, Mikhail Gorbachev, Günter Grass, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Orhan Pamuk, and Desmond Tutu.

The appeal was signed by writers including Jonathan Franzen, Javier Marías, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Martin Amis, Chuck Palahniuk, Nathan Englander, Ian McEwan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, José Saramago, Elfriede Jelinek, Wislawa Szymborska, Betty Williams, Lech Wałęsa, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Peter Schneider, Colum McCann, Patrick McGrath, Cathleen Shine, Junot Diaz, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Taslima Nasreen, Caro Llewelyn, Ingrid Betancourt, Adam Michnik, and Claudio Magris. Foreign media—from El País to Le Nouvel Observateur and from Courrier International to Al Arabiya and CNN—also spread the initiative.[36]

Following this, various radio stations opened up to debates and comments on the subject. The program Fahrenheit on Italy's Rai Radio 3 organized a marathon reading of Gomorrah in which celebrities from the world of culture, news, theater, and civil society participated. Numerous Italian cities also offered honorary citizenship to the writer, while many schools subscribed to the appeal. The Casa della Memoria e della Storia ("House of Memory and History") in Rome hosted an eight-hour choral reading of Gomorrah.

In addition to the signatures of the six prominent figures, normal citizens were able to sign the appeal on a special page created by the newspaper La Repubblica. More than 250,000 signatures were collected.

Detailed analysis

Need for bodyguards

In October 2009, the head of the Rapid Response Team of Naples, Vittorio Pisani, questioned the need for a security detail to protect Roberto Saviano,[37] maintaining that the death threats had not been confirmed. In 2008, the director Pasquale Squitieri also cast doubt on the appropriateness of the security detail. According to him, Saviano went to the Cannes Film Festival "probably to put on a bit of a show" and "those who are really targets have bodyguards, of course, but they are also prohibited from flying on [commercial] planes and frequenting public places because they could put themselves and others in danger."[38] Squitieri's declarations triggered a controversy between the two of them,[39] and the producer of the film Gomorrah, Domenico Procacci, intervened, calling Squitieri's declarations "despicable."

The head of police, Antonio Manganelli, replied by reaffirming the need for bodyguards.[40] Furthermore, the head DA for the Anti-Mafia Office of Naples, Federico Cafiero de Raho, declared that Saviano is exposed to a high risk and, therefore, requires protection . The district attorneys Raffaele Cantone and Franco Roberti, both magistrates with years of experience on the front lines fighting against the clans, reiterated Saviano's dangerous situation. Journalist Giuseppe D'Avanzo wrote a piece for La Repubblica, requesting the resignation of the head of the Rapid Response Team for his declarations.

Saviano replied in an article for La Repubblica, denouncing the attempt to isolate him and to cause the "disintegration" of the public's solidarity with him, comparing his case with those of Peppino Impastato, Giuseppe Fava, and Giancarlo Siani. Following Pisani's initiatives, Saviano had to "exhibit, as requested, the real cause of the threats."[41]

On 19 May 2014, Pisani, testifying during the trial of the Casalesi bosses and their lawyers, who had used an istanza di remissione (request for remission) to threaten Saviano and others in the courtroom, renounced the headline of the interview that he had given to the Corriere della Sera in 2009: Saviano should not have bodyguards. "I don't agree with the headline of that article," Pisani declared to the judges. He also clarified the content of the investigation his team had conducted on the threats to Saviano: "We investigated and showed some photos to Saviano, who, however, did not identify them as the people who had threatened him. The decision to assign a security detail was obviously not up to us." Pisani, therefore, explained that he did not say the words pronounced in the article since the Carabinieri (Italy's national military police) were the ones who had to make the decision concerning Saviano's security detail.[42]

Cesare Battisti

In 2004, the internet site Carmilla Online collected signatures in support of the ex-terrorist member of PAC (Armed Proletarians for Communism), Cesare Battisti, who had become a writer and was then hiding in France and Brazil. More than 1,500 signatures were obtained from the political-cultural arenas of France and Italy, including Saviano's.[43] However, in January 2009, Saviano retracted his signature, saying that this was out of respect for the victims. This petition attracted media attention thanks to the interest of the weekly magazine Panorama.[44][45]

Declarations on Israel

During the demonstration "For Truth, for Israel", organized by representative Fiamma Nirenstein of the PdL and held in Rome on 7 October 2010, Saviano participated through a video message, praising the Jewish state as a place of freedom and civilization. In his speech, the writer spoke of his Jewish roots and declared that Israel is a "democracy under siege," Tel Aviv is "a hospitable city" "that never sleeps, is full of life and, above all, tolerance, a city that succeeds more than any other in welcoming the gay community" and that "the refugees of Darfur, for example, are welcomed in Israel."[46]

These, along with other declarations, caused controversy and were criticized for having ignored the injustices suffered by the Palestinian population.[47] Activist Vittorio Arrigoni responded to Saviano's affirmations through a video, inviting him to revise his opinions and to define Shimon Peres—commended by Saviano—as a "war criminal."

Saviano responded to the objections by saying "In the video ... I never supported the war, never supported Operation Cast Lead, or the Israeli Right, never Netanyahu. I spoke about another Israel, an Israel to which one may turn in order to obtain peace." Referring to the writer Arrigoni, he replied, "In response to the question of are you with the Palestinians or the Israelis, I may disappoint, but I will always respond how my friend David Grossman taught me: 'I am with peace.'"[48]

Article on Benedetto Croce

Saviano was accused by Marta Herling, the granddaughter of the Abruzzese philosopher Benedetto Croce, of having written a dishonest article about him. The writer affirmed that during the 1883 earthquake of Casamicciola, in which Croce lost his parents and sister, he allegedly followed his dying father's advice and offered 100,000 lire (a very large sum for the time), to whoever helped him out from under the rubble. The testimony taken up by Saviano during the show Vieni via con me ("Come away with me") in 2010, was denied by Herling in a letter published in the Corriere del Mezzogiorno and in two interviews given to TG1, during which she explicitly maintained that the writer invented the episode.

Such a theory, according to the director of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Marco Demarco, came from an "anonymous source" reported by Ugo Pirro in the magazine Oggi in 1950. Actually, two detailed sources document the episode described by Saviano. A later and better-known one is by Carlo del Balzo, who describes the tragedy suffered by the Croce family in a book published shortly after the event: Cronaca del Tremuoto di Casamicciola ("Report on the Casamicciola Earthquake") (Naples: Carluccio, De Blasio & Co., 1883). Nevertheless, there is also a previous book drawn on by Carlo del Balzo, titled Ricordi. Casamicciola e le sue rovine. Cenni storici – Geografici – Cronologici ("Memories. Casamicciola and its ruins. Historical – Geographic – Chronological Accounts") (Naples: Prete, 1883.). The passage taken by del Balzo is the following:

"And at Casamicciola the son of Comm. Croce was dug out alive. He is the only survivor of the rich family from Foggia, which has been settled in Naples for a long time. He recounted that his mother and sister were found among the rubble and passed away. His father, who was writing with his son at the table when the quake struck, was completely covered by debris except for his head and told him – Offer 100 thousand lire to whoever can save us. – And then his voice could no longer be heard and he was completely buried. The young Croce had a fractured arm and leg."

A legal complaint between Roberto Saviano and TG1 resulted from this affair since TG1 had interviewed Marta Herling, who maintained that the writer had "invented" the episode of the 100,000 lire, without giving Saviano the right to reply. Feeling that he had been defamed, Saviano sued RAI for 4,700,000 euros in damages.[49]

Plagiarism dispute

 
Roberto Saviano in 2017

In 2013, Saviano and the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house were sentenced for plagiarism on appeal.[50] The Appeals Court of Naples recognized that some pages of Gomorrah (0.6% of the entire book) were the results of an illicit reproduction of some lines from two articles from local daily papers, Cronache di Napoli and Corriere di Caserta.[51] Therefore, it partially modified the sentence from the first-degree court in which the court had rejected the accusations made by the two newspapers and had, instead, condemned them to pay damages for having "abusively reproduced" two of Saviano's articles[52] (this sentence was confirmed in the appeal).[53] In the appeal, the writer and Mondadori were ordered to jointly pay reparations for property and other damages of 60,000 Euros, plus a portion of legal costs.[54] The writer appealed the ruling at the Court of Cassation, and the Supreme Court partially confirmed the sentence of the Appeals Court, but called for a reconsideration of the damages, evaluating 60,000 Euros to be an excessive sum for newspaper articles with a very limited readership.[55] The Supreme Court did not agree with Saviano's appeal, rejecting almost all of the findings and largely confirming the basic structure of the Appeals Court's sentence.[56][1]

In September 2015, journalist Michael C. Moynihan wrote an article for The Daily Beast,[57] criticizing ZeroZeroZero and accusing Saviano of having used sections of text, including from Wikipedia, without citing his sources. In an article for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica,[58][59] Saviano demonstrated how the passages from ZeroZeroZero and the presumed sources identified by Moynihan were manipulated in order to appear similar. The English newspaper The Guardian[60] reported on the controversy with an article entitled "Roberto Saviano dismisses plagiarism claims over latest book", in which Saviano says, "I'm not a journalist (or a reporter), but, rather, a writer, and I recount real facts." Saviano adds that "Interpretations and theories have a provenance, not mere facts: those belong to all, to those who recount them and to those who read them, making them their own".

Among the various public personalities who have expressed their support of Roberto Saviano, the then-editor in chief of La Repubblica, Ezio Mauro, appeared in a video on the paper's website on 28 September 2015,[61] to give his contribution to the "Saviano case." He repeated that "the facts of the news are available to all" and spoke about the "typical iconoclasm toward famous people who have constructed success and visibility based on their own hard work and studies." He continued by saying, "Saviano is paying for having an enormous following and, above all, for the fact that he hasn't remained comfortably in cultural obscurity".

Television

On 8–29 November 2010, Roberto Saviano hosted the cultural program Vieni via con me ("Come Away with Me") with Fabio Fazio on Rai 3. The program had very successful ratings: the third episode was seen by 9,671,000 viewers, or 31.6% of the television audience that evening. The show covered themes such as organized crime, immigration, women's emancipation, politics, and serious problems in Italian society. The program typically features the reading of "lists", with the goal of highlighting the issues addressed through a series of data. Numerous special guests appeared in the four episodes of the program.

Beginning on 14 May 2012, Saviano hosted the program Quello che (non) ho [it] ("What I (don't) have"), once again with Fabio Fazio. It aired on La7 and was also streamed live on YouTube. The first episode was a record for La7, with 12.65%, or 3,036,000, viewers, and was the third most-watched program of the evening.[62] This record was surpassed two days later with the third and final episode of the program, which registered 13.06% of viewers.

For four weeks from 4 October 2017, Saviano hosted the show Kings of Crime [it] on the TV channel Nove, where he spoke of the major Italian and international bosses of the organized crime system.[63]

Awards and honors

Music

  • British trip hop group Massive Attack wrote a song inspired by the story of Roberto Saviano and Gomorrah. Titled "Herculaneum", it was featured in the soundtrack for the film Gomorrah.
  • Neapolitan rapper Lucariello wrote a song called "Cappotto di legno" (Wooden Coat) with music by Ezio Bosso. Before writing the song, Lucariello received Saviano's approval for it because it tells the story of a killer who is preparing to kill Saviano.[70]
  • The group Subsonica, from Turin, dedicated their song "Piombo" from the album L'eclissi to the writer.
  • The end of the track "In Italia" by rapper Fabri Fibra contains part of Enzo Biagi's interview of Roberto Saviano, in which the writer states, "One of my dreams was to remain in my own land, to recount it and to continue—how can I say it—to resist."
  • The same rapper refers to Saviano in another one of his pieces. In the track "Teoria e Pratica" from the EP Casus Belli, he says, "Who would you like as president? Me, Saviano!"
  • The song "TammorrAntiCamorra", from the album Suburb by the rap group 'A 67, contains the line "smettiamo di essere Gomorra" ("Let's Quit Being Gomorrah"), and is dedicated to the priest don Giuseppe Diana, who was killed by the Camorra. In the song, Roberto Saviano reads a fragment of his book.
  • During the U2 concert in Rome on 8 October 2010, Bono mentioned Roberto Saviano two times and dedicated the group's famous song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the writer. Saviano was at the concert and had met with the U2 frontman before the show.
  • Fabri Fibra cites Saviano and his book Gomorrah once again in the track "Guerra e pace" ("War and Peace") on his eponymous 2013 album.
  • Clementino also cites Saviano in the song "Mea Culpa", on the album of the same name.
  • Saviano is cited by the Sardinian rapper Salmo in the track "Nella pancia dello squalo" ("In the Stomach of the Shark") on the album The Island Chainsaw Massacre.
  • The journalist is cited in the track "Perdona e dimentica" ("Forgive and Forget") by I Cani. Saviano showed his appreciation for the one-man band, writing that his songs "are among the best stories of our country. Electronic anthropology."

The writer dedicated a section of his official site to music in the Galleries section.[71]

Bibliography

Books

  • Gomorra. Viaggio nell'impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della camorra. Milano. Oscar Mondadori. 2006. ISBN 978-88-04-56915-2 - ISBN 88-04-55450-9 (in Italian)
  • Beauty and the Inferno: Essays. Brooklyn, NY: Verso. 2012. ISBN 9781844679508
  • La paranza dei bambini. Milano. Feltrinelli. 2016. ISBN 9788807032073 (in Italian)
  • Zero Zero Zero. Milano. Feltrinelli. 2013. ISBN 978-8807030536 (in Italian)
  • Bacio feroce. Milano. Mondadori. 2017 ISBN 978-8807891663 (in Italian)

Short stories

  • "Il contrario della morte" (2007)
  • "Super Santos" (2012)

Essays

Audiobooks

Miscellaneous

  • Preface to Anatole France's La rivolta degli angeli, Padua, Meridiano zero, 2004; 2009 (Italian edition of France's The Revolt of the Angels)
  • A occhi aperti. Le nuove voci della narrativa italiana raccontano la realtà, et al., Milan Oscar Mondadori, 2008. ISBN 978-88-04-58356-1
  • Raccontare la realtà. Un grande reporter americano incontra l'autore di Gomorra, con William Langewiesche, Rome, Internazionale, 2008

(Publication of the conversation between Saviano and William Langewiesche at the Ferrara Internazionale Literary Festival in 2007).

  • Introduction to Michael Herr, Dispacci, Milan, Bur, 2008 (Italian edition of Michael Herr's Dispatches)
  • Preface to Raffaele Sardo's La bestia. Camorra storie di delitti, vittime e complici, Milan, Melampo, 2008
  • La Ferita. Racconti per le vittime innocenti di camorra, Naples, ad est dell'equatore, 2009
  • Preface to Nanni Balestrini's Sandokan, storia di camorra, Rome, DeriveApprodi, 2009
  • Preface to Giuseppe Fava's Prima che vi uccidano, Milan, Bompiani, 2009
  • Essay in Makeba: la storia di Miriam Makeba, Iesa, Goree, 2009 (Italian edition of Makeba: My Story)
  • Introduction to Anna Politkovskaja, Cecenia. Il disonore russo, Rome, Fandango, 2009 (Italian edition of Anna Politkovskaya's A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya)
  • LiberaMente. Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana, et al., 3 voll., Palermo, Palumbo, 2010
  • Preface to Andrea Pazienza's Astarte, Rome, Fandango, 2010
  • Preface to Mario Gelardi's Liberami dal male. La vera storia di Marco Marchese, Naples, ad est dell'equatore, 2010
  • Introduction to Joseph Conrad, La linea d'ombra, Rome, Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso, 2011 (Italian edition of Joseph Conrad's The Shadow Line)
  • Preface to Umberto Eco's Der ewige Faschismus, Munich, Hanser, 2020. ISBN 978-3-446-26576-9 (The Eternal Fascism, A collection of several of Eco's works, published in Italy as Il fascismo eterno and Migrazioni e intolleranza in 2018 and 2019, retranslated from the Italian, English, and French texts of Eco into German, with a preface by Saviano.)

Journalism

  • "Un sogno leghista", Nazione Indiana, 21 February 2003
  • "Pasta, fagioli e clandestinità", Diario, 4 July 2003
  • "La parola camorra non esiste", Nazione Indiana, 16 September 2003
  • "L'infinita congettura", Nazione Indiana, 27 February 2004
  • "La città di notte", Nazione Indiana, 22 March 2004
  • "Annalisa. Cronaca di un funerale", Nazione Indiana, 9 April 2004
  • "L'odiatore", Nazione Indiana, 4 May 2004 (an abridged version of this article was published in Pulp Libri in 2003)
  • "Su Gustaw Herling", Nazione Indiana, 3 June 2004 (from Pulp Libri, n. 48)
  • "Giancarlo Siani", Nazione Indiana, 11 June 2004
  • "Mauro Curradi, scrittore d'Africa", Nazione Indiana, 17 July 2004 (from Pulp Libri, January 2003)
  • "Vi racconto di Marano e dei due compari", Nazione Indiana, 5 August 2004
  • "L'affermazione della libertà. Intervista a Mauro Curradi", Nazione Indiana, 24 August 2004
  • "Kaddish per Enzo", Nazione Indiana, 27 August 2004
  • "La bugia perenne", Nazione Indiana, 23 September 2004
  • "Lettera a Federico Del Prete", Nazione Indiana, 13 October 2004
  • "La brillante carriera del giovane di sistema", Nazione Indiana, 26 October 2004 (from Il manifesto, 24 October 2004)
  • "Qui", Nazione Indiana, 23 November 2004
  • "Il mestiere dei soldi", Nazione Indiana, 15 December 2004 (from Sud. Rivista di cultura, arte e letteratura, n. 3, December 2004)
  • "Felicia", Nazione Indiana, 8 December 2004
  • "Pandori e moda. La camorra spa", Nazione Indiana, 23 December 2004 (from Il manifesto, 16 December 2004)
  • "Isaac Bashevis Singer", Nazione Indiana, 14 January 2005 (from Pulp Libri, n. 52, November–December 2004)
  • "Boss e poeti", Nazione Indiana, 13 February 2005 (from Corriere della Sera - Corriere del Mezzogiorno, January 2005)
  • "Giuliana Sgrena: quello che sta accadendo", by Sergio Nazzaro and Roberto Saviano, Nazione Indiana, 25 February 2005
  • "33", Nazione Indiana, 14 March 2005 (from Corriere della Sera - Corriere del Mezzogiorno, 13 March 2005)
  • "Ferdinando Tartaglia, Fenomenologia di un'eresia anarchica", Nazione Indiana, 10 April 2005 (from Pulp, n. 53, January–February 2005)
  • "Il matriarcato", Nazione Indiana, 14 May 2005 (da Corriere della Sera - Corriere del Mezzogiorno, 16 April 2005)
  • "Scrivere sul fronte meridionale. Lettera agli amici indiani", Nazione Indiana, 17 April 2005
  • "La terra padre", Nazione Indiana, 2 June 2005 (from Nuovi Argomenti, n. 30, April–June 2005)
  • "Io so e ho le prove", Nazione Indiana, 2 December 2005 (from Nuovi Argomenti, n. 32, October–December 2005)
  • "Super santos, pali e capistazione", Nazione Indiana, 10 October 2005 (from Il pallone è tondo, edited by Alessandro Leogrande, L'ancora del mediterraneo, 2005)
  • "Scampia Erzegovina" 13 July 2005 I Miserabili (from Generazioni. Nove per due, L'ancora del mediterraneo, 2005)
  • "Langewiesche, scrittore d'aria, di terra e di mare", Nazione Indiana, 2 December 2005 (from Pulp Libri, n. 56, July–August 2005)
  • "Inferno napoletano", L'espresso n. 36, 14 September 2006
  • "Da Scampia si vede Pechino", L'espresso n. 38, 28 September 2006
  • "E voi dove eravate", L'espresso n. 46, 21 November 2006
  • "Quanto costa una parola", L'espresso n. 52, 4 January 2007
  • "Vi racconto l'impero della cocaina", L'espresso n. 10, 15 March 2007
  • "Spartani di George Bush", L'espresso n. 12, 29 March 2007
  • "Guai a raccontare questo paese", L'espresso n. 15, 19 April 2007
  • "Io sto con gli indiani", L'espresso n. 16, 23 April 2007
  • Saviano, Roberto (6 March 2012). "TAV, da Napoli alla Val di Susa le mani della mafia sui cantieri". la Repubblica. Rome.
  • — (7–20 March 2019). Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock. "The migrant caravan : made in USA". The New York Review of Books. 66 (4): 14–16.

Filmography

Cinema

TV

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January 31, 2023
roberto, saviano, italian, roˈbɛrto, saˈvjaːno, born, september, 1979, italian, writer, essayist, journalist, screenwriter, writings, including, articles, book, gomorrah, uses, literature, investigative, reporting, tell, economic, reality, territory, business,. 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 organized crime more generally Roberto SavianoSaviano in 2019Born 1979 09 22 22 September 1979 age 43 Naples ItalyOccupationWriterjournalistscreenwriterNationalityItalianPeriod2000 presentNotable worksGomorrahZeroZeroZeroPiranhasWebsiterobertosaviano wbr comAfter receiving death threats in 2006 made by the Casalesi clan of the Camorra a clan which he had denounced in his expose and in the piazza of Casal di Principe during a demonstration in defense of legality 1 Saviano was put under a strict security protocol Since 13 October 2006 he has lived under police protection 2 Saviano has collaborated with numerous important Italian and international newspapers Currently he writes for the Italian publications l Espresso la Repubblica and The Post Internazionale Internationally he collaborates in the United States with The Washington Post 3 The New York Times 4 and Time 5 in Spain with El Pais 6 in Germany with Die Zeit 7 and Der Spiegel 8 in Sweden with Expressen 9 and in the United Kingdom with The Times 10 and The Guardian 11 His writing has drawn praise from many important writers and other cultural figures such as Umberto Eco 12 Saviano identifies as an atheist 13 Contents 1 Biography 2 Gomorrah ZeroZeroZero 3 Threats and life under police protection 4 Appeal from Nobel Prize winners 5 Detailed analysis 6 Plagiarism dispute 7 Television 8 Awards and honors 9 Music 10 Bibliography 10 1 Books 10 2 Short stories 10 3 Essays 10 4 Audiobooks 10 5 Miscellaneous 10 6 Journalism 11 Filmography 11 1 Cinema 11 2 TV 12 References 13 External linksBiography Edit Saviano grew up near Caserta Son of Luigi Saviano a Neapolitan doctor and Miriam Haftar a Ligurian of Jewish origins 14 15 16 Roberto Saviano received his high school diploma from the Armando Diaz State Scientific High School and then graduated in philosophy from the University of Naples Federico II where he was the student of historian Francesco Barbagallo 17 He began his career in journalism in 2002 writing for numerous magazines and daily papers including Pulp Diario Sud Il manifesto the website Nazione Indiana and for the Camorra monitoring unit of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno His articles at the time were already important enough to spur judicial authorities at the beginning of 2005 to listen to him regarding organized crime 18 In March 2006 he published Gomorrah a novel inspired by real events He is the author along with Mario Gelardi of a theatrical work of the same name and is a screenwriter for Gomorrah the movie based on the novel 19 On 10 December 2009 in the presence of Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo Saviano received the title of Honorary Member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and the Second Level Academic Diploma Honoris Causa in Communication and Art Education which is the highest degree given by the university On 22 January 2011 the University of Genoa awarded him a bachelor s degree honoris causa in law for the important contribution to the fight against crime and to the defense of legality in our country Saviano dedicated the honor to the judges of Milan s district attorney s office who were investigating Rubygate This led to a controversy with Marina Berlusconi daughter of Silvio Berlusconi and president of the publishing house Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 20 21 Saviano is primarily influenced by southern Italian intellectuals such as Giustino Fortunato and Gaetano Salvemini 22 by the anarchists Errico Malatesta and Mikhail Bakunin and by poet Rocco Scotellaro Additionally he has said that his educational background includes many prominent writers such as Ernst Junger Ezra Pound Louis Ferdinand Celine Carl Schmitt and Julius Evola 23 24 In 2015 Saviano collaborated with the Neapolitan playwright Mimmo Borrelli on the play Sanghenapule Vita straordinaria di San Gennaro which was part of the 2015 2016 season of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan In 2006 following the success of Gomorrah which denounces the activities of the Camorra Saviano received ominous threats These were confirmed by police informants and reports that revealed attempts on Saviano s life by the Casalesi clan Investigators have claimed that the Camorra selected Casalesi clan boss Giuseppe Setola to kill Saviano After the Neapolitan police investigations the Italian Minister for Interior Affairs Giuliano Amato assigned Saviano a personal bodyguard and transferred him from Naples In the fall of 2008 informant Carmine Schiavone cousin of the imprisoned Casalesi clan boss Francesco Schiavone revealed to the authorities that the clan had planned to eliminate Saviano and his police escort by Christmas on the motorway between Rome and Naples with a bomb in the same period Saviano announced his intention to leave Italy in order to stop having to live as a convict and reclaim his life On 20 October 2008 six Nobel Prize awarded authors and intellectuals Orhan Pamuk Dario Fo Rita Levi Montalcini Desmond Tutu Gunter Grass and Mikhail Gorbachev published an article saying that they sided with Saviano against the Camorra They also stated that the Italian government must protect Saviano s life and help him lead a normal life Signatures were collected on the website of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica 25 Saviano contributed an op ed piece to the 24 January 2010 issue of the New York Times entitled Italy s African Heroes He wrote about the January 2010 riots between African immigrants and Italians in Rosarno a town in Calabria Saviano suggests that the rioting was more of a response to the migrants exploitation by the Ndrangheta or Calabrian mafia than to the hostility of Italians In November 2010 he hosted along with Fabio Fazio the Italian television program Vieni via con me which was broadcast over four weeks by Rai 3 Saviano s book ZeroZeroZero it was published by Feltrinelli in 2013 and the English translation was published by Penguin Random House in July 2015 This book is a study of the financial dealings around cocaine covering its movement across continents and the role of drug money in international finance Gomorrah ZeroZeroZero Edit It s my reader who bothers criminal organizations it s not me My reader is what they don t want The fact that in this moment we are talking about it that all the newspapers talked about it that books continue to be published and that documentaries continue to come out is what they don t want they don t want attention on themselves on their names and above all on their businesses Roberto Saviano on his book Gomorrah Roberto Saviano in 2011 In March 2006 Saviano s first book Gomorrah A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples Organized Crime System was published as part of Mondadori s Strade Blu series It describes the business and criminal world of the Camorra and of the places where the organization was born and exists 26 the region of Campania the city of Naples the towns of Casal di Principe San Cipriano d Aversa and the territory around Aversa known as the agro aversano Having grown up there the author introduces the reader to a reality unknown to outsiders The book talks about the criminal bosses sumptuous villas copied from Hollywood films rural lands filled with the toxic waste of half of Europe and a population that not only cohabitates with organised crime but even protects it and approves of its actions 27 As of August 2009 the book had sold 2 5 million copies in Italy alone and was translated into 52 languages In the rest of the world about 2 million copies of Gomorrah were sold It was present on bestseller lists in Germany the Netherlands Belgium France Sweden Finland Lithuania Albania Israel Lebanon and Austria A stage show was based on Gomorrah earning Saviano the best actor of a new Italian play award at the Olimpici del Teatro Theater Olympics in 2008 A film of the same name directed by Matteo Garrone was also created it won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 28 In 2009 the film won the Tonino Guerra Prize for best script at the Bari International Film Festival A television show titled Gomorrah La serie was produced by Sky Italia Fandango Cattleya Beta Film and LA7 under the supervision of Saviano and the direction of Stefano Sollima Francesca Comencini and Claudio Cupellini It ran for five series commencing in 2014 and concluding in 2021 29 In 2016 the same production crew began filming ZeroZeroZero an adaptation of Saviano s 2013 book of the same name about the international cocaine trade Threats and life under police protection EditThe success of his book created numerous problems for Saviano starting with threatening letters silent phone calls and protective isolation During a demonstration for legality in Casal di Principe on 23 September 2006 the writer denounced the business of the leaders of the Casalese clan Francesco Bidognetti and Francesco Schiavone currently in prison and the two ruling bosses at the time Antonio Iovine and Michele Zagaria He addressed them in robust tones You are not from this land Quit being part of this land and invited residents to rebel Because of the threats and intimidation Saviano received consequently the then Minister of the Interior Giuliano Amato decided to assign him police protection beginning on 13 October 2006 Roberto Saviano during a Rai 3 television program On 14 March 2008 during the Spartacus Trial the attorney for Casalese bosses Francesco Bidognetti and Antonio Iovine Michele Santonastaso assisted by Carmine D Aniello read a letter written jointly by Bidognetti and Iovine while both were in prison to the president of the First Section of the Appellate Court of Assizes Raimondo Romeres The letter contained a request to move the trial due to legittima suspicione or doubt surrounding the impartiality of the judicial body caused by the alleged influence of Roberto Saviano Rosaria Capacchione and the district attorneys Federico Cafiero de Raho and Raffaele Cantone on the judges 30 Following this Minister of the Interior Amato decided to strengthen security measures for the writer increasing his police escort from three to five men Bidognetti and Iovine and their attorneys Michele Santonastaso and Carmine D Aniello were then charged with intimidation of Saviano and Capacchione Before the third criminal section of the Court of Naples the Assistant Prosecutor of the District Anti Mafia Directorate DDA Antonello Ardituro requested the maximum sentence on conviction of one year and six months imprisonment The sentence was passed for Bidognetti Santonastaso and D Aniello while Iovine was acquitted due to insufficient proof The attorney general for Reggio Calabria Federico Cafiero de Raho testified during the trial stating that Saviano was a mortal enemy of the clan and recalling that Saviano was among the few journalists present at all 52 of the prosecutor s closing speeches for the Spartacus Trial On 14 October 2008 reports emerged of a possible assassination plot against Saviano A police inspector of the Milan Anti Mafia Investigation Department DIA informed the DDA that the pentito Carmine Schiavone cousin of boss Francesco Schiavone aka Sandokan had informed him of a plan already in operation to kill the writer and his bodyguards before Christmas through a spectacular attack on the highway between Rome and Naples 31 in the style of the assassination of anti Mafia judge Giovanni Falcone at Capaci However when interrogated by magistrates Schiavone denied any knowledge of the plan provoking the writer s immediate response It s obvious that he d say this if he were to talk about the plan it would mean implicitly admitting to still having connections with organized crime Subsequently the district attorney heading the investigation requested and obtained dismissal of the case as the reports appeared to be unfounded although Schiavone confirmed that Saviano had been condemned to death by the Casalese clan 32 In October 2008 Saviano decided to leave Italy for a time 33 as the result of threats which were confirmed by reports and statements from informants revealing a Casalesi clan plan to eliminate him I believe I have the right to a break Over the years I have thought that giving in to the temptation to retreat was neither a very good idea nor above all an intelligent one I believed that it was rather stupid in addition to being improper to give up to bend to men who are nothing people whom you abhor for what they think for how they act for how they live and for their very being But in this moment I don t see any reason why I should insist on living in this way as a prisoner of myself of my book of my success Fuck success I want a life That s it I want a house I want to fall in love to drink a beer in public to go to a bookstore and to choose a book by reading the cover I want to go for a stroll to sunbathe to walk under the rain to meet people without fear and without frightening my mother I want to be surrounded by my friends to be able to laugh and to not have to talk about myself always about myself as though I were terminally ill and they were struggling with a boring yet inevitable visit Damn it I m only twenty eight years old And I still want to write write write because it s my passion and my resistance And in order to write I need to plunge my hands into reality to cover myself in it to smell its odor and its sweat and to not live quarantined in a hyperbolic chamber inside military barracks today here tomorrow two hundred kilometers away moved like a package without knowing what happened and what can happen A perennial state of bewilderment and insecurity keeps me from thinking reflecting concentrating on what I have to do Sometimes I surprise myself thinking these words I want my life back I silently repeat them one by one to myself 34 Roberto SavianoAppeal from Nobel Prize winners Edit Roberto Saviano signing his books in Turin 2013 People unfamiliar with Camorra power dynamics often think that killing an innocent person is a naive gesture on the part of the clans because it only legitimizes and amplifies the victim s example and words a confirmation of the truths he spoke Wrong That s never the way it is As soon as you die in the land of the Camorra you re enshrouded in countless suspicions and innocence is a distant hypothesis the last one imaginable You are guilty until proven innocent In the land of the Camorra the theory of modern rights is turned on its head Roberto Saviano Gomorrah translated by Virginia Jewiss On 20 October 2008 six international Nobel Prize winners rallied in support of Roberto Saviano 35 asking the Italian government to do something to protect him and to defeat the Camorra and emphasizing the fact that organized crime is not merely a problem for police that only concerns the writer but is a problem for democracy that concerns all free citizens The appeal concluded that citizens cannot tolerate the fact that the events described in Saviano s book are taking place in 2008 in Europe just as they can t tolerate that the price one pays for denouncing these events means losing one s freedom and safety The Nobel Prize winners who launched the appeal were Dario Fo Mikhail Gorbachev Gunter Grass Rita Levi Montalcini Orhan Pamuk and Desmond Tutu The appeal was signed by writers including Jonathan Franzen Javier Marias Jonathan Safran Foer Jonathan Lethem Martin Amis Chuck Palahniuk Nathan Englander Ian McEwan Hans Magnus Enzensberger Jose Saramago Elfriede Jelinek Wislawa Szymborska Betty Williams Lech Walesa Paul Auster Siri Hustvedt Peter Schneider Colum McCann Patrick McGrath Cathleen Shine Junot Diaz Tahar Ben Jelloun Taslima Nasreen Caro Llewelyn Ingrid Betancourt Adam Michnik and Claudio Magris Foreign media from El Pais to Le Nouvel Observateur and from Courrier International to Al Arabiya and CNN also spread the initiative 36 Following this various radio stations opened up to debates and comments on the subject The program Fahrenheit on Italy s Rai Radio 3 organized a marathon reading of Gomorrah in which celebrities from the world of culture news theater and civil society participated Numerous Italian cities also offered honorary citizenship to the writer while many schools subscribed to the appeal The Casa della Memoria e della Storia House of Memory and History in Rome hosted an eight hour choral reading of Gomorrah In addition to the signatures of the six prominent figures normal citizens were able to sign the appeal on a special page created by the newspaper La Repubblica More than 250 000 signatures were collected Detailed analysis EditNeed for bodyguardsIn October 2009 the head of the Rapid Response Team of Naples Vittorio Pisani questioned the need for a security detail to protect Roberto Saviano 37 maintaining that the death threats had not been confirmed In 2008 the director Pasquale Squitieri also cast doubt on the appropriateness of the security detail According to him Saviano went to the Cannes Film Festival probably to put on a bit of a show and those who are really targets have bodyguards of course but they are also prohibited from flying on commercial planes and frequenting public places because they could put themselves and others in danger 38 Squitieri s declarations triggered a controversy between the two of them 39 and the producer of the film Gomorrah Domenico Procacci intervened calling Squitieri s declarations despicable The head of police Antonio Manganelli replied by reaffirming the need for bodyguards 40 Furthermore the head DA for the Anti Mafia Office of Naples Federico Cafiero de Raho declared that Saviano is exposed to a high risk and therefore requires protection The district attorneys Raffaele Cantone and Franco Roberti both magistrates with years of experience on the front lines fighting against the clans reiterated Saviano s dangerous situation Journalist Giuseppe D Avanzo wrote a piece for La Repubblica requesting the resignation of the head of the Rapid Response Team for his declarations Saviano replied in an article for La Repubblica denouncing the attempt to isolate him and to cause the disintegration of the public s solidarity with him comparing his case with those of Peppino Impastato Giuseppe Fava and Giancarlo Siani Following Pisani s initiatives Saviano had to exhibit as requested the real cause of the threats 41 On 19 May 2014 Pisani testifying during the trial of the Casalesi bosses and their lawyers who had used an istanza di remissione request for remission to threaten Saviano and others in the courtroom renounced the headline of the interview that he had given to the Corriere della Sera in 2009 Saviano should not have bodyguards I don t agree with the headline of that article Pisani declared to the judges He also clarified the content of the investigation his team had conducted on the threats to Saviano We investigated and showed some photos to Saviano who however did not identify them as the people who had threatened him The decision to assign a security detail was obviously not up to us Pisani therefore explained that he did not say the words pronounced in the article since the Carabinieri Italy s national military police were the ones who had to make the decision concerning Saviano s security detail 42 Cesare BattistiIn 2004 the internet site Carmilla Online collected signatures in support of the ex terrorist member of PAC Armed Proletarians for Communism Cesare Battisti who had become a writer and was then hiding in France and Brazil More than 1 500 signatures were obtained from the political cultural arenas of France and Italy including Saviano s 43 However in January 2009 Saviano retracted his signature saying that this was out of respect for the victims This petition attracted media attention thanks to the interest of the weekly magazine Panorama 44 45 Declarations on IsraelDuring the demonstration For Truth for Israel organized by representative Fiamma Nirenstein of the PdL and held in Rome on 7 October 2010 Saviano participated through a video message praising the Jewish state as a place of freedom and civilization In his speech the writer spoke of his Jewish roots and declared that Israel is a democracy under siege Tel Aviv is a hospitable city that never sleeps is full of life and above all tolerance a city that succeeds more than any other in welcoming the gay community and that the refugees of Darfur for example are welcomed in Israel 46 These along with other declarations caused controversy and were criticized for having ignored the injustices suffered by the Palestinian population 47 Activist Vittorio Arrigoni responded to Saviano s affirmations through a video inviting him to revise his opinions and to define Shimon Peres commended by Saviano as a war criminal Saviano responded to the objections by saying In the video I never supported the war never supported Operation Cast Lead or the Israeli Right never Netanyahu I spoke about another Israel an Israel to which one may turn in order to obtain peace Referring to the writer Arrigoni he replied In response to the question of are you with the Palestinians or the Israelis I may disappoint but I will always respond how my friend David Grossman taught me I am with peace 48 Article on Benedetto CroceSaviano was accused by Marta Herling the granddaughter of the Abruzzese philosopher Benedetto Croce of having written a dishonest article about him The writer affirmed that during the 1883 earthquake of Casamicciola in which Croce lost his parents and sister he allegedly followed his dying father s advice and offered 100 000 lire a very large sum for the time to whoever helped him out from under the rubble The testimony taken up by Saviano during the show Vieni via con me Come away with me in 2010 was denied by Herling in a letter published in the Corriere del Mezzogiorno and in two interviews given to TG1 during which she explicitly maintained that the writer invented the episode Such a theory according to the director of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno Marco Demarco came from an anonymous source reported by Ugo Pirro in the magazine Oggi in 1950 Actually two detailed sources document the episode described by Saviano A later and better known one is by Carlo del Balzo who describes the tragedy suffered by the Croce family in a book published shortly after the event Cronaca del Tremuoto di Casamicciola Report on the Casamicciola Earthquake Naples Carluccio De Blasio amp Co 1883 Nevertheless there is also a previous book drawn on by Carlo del Balzo titled Ricordi Casamicciola e le sue rovine Cenni storici Geografici Cronologici Memories Casamicciola and its ruins Historical Geographic Chronological Accounts Naples Prete 1883 The passage taken by del Balzo is the following And at Casamicciola the son of Comm Croce was dug out alive He is the only survivor of the rich family from Foggia which has been settled in Naples for a long time He recounted that his mother and sister were found among the rubble and passed away His father who was writing with his son at the table when the quake struck was completely covered by debris except for his head and told him Offer 100 thousand lire to whoever can save us And then his voice could no longer be heard and he was completely buried The young Croce had a fractured arm and leg A legal complaint between Roberto Saviano and TG1 resulted from this affair since TG1 had interviewed Marta Herling who maintained that the writer had invented the episode of the 100 000 lire without giving Saviano the right to reply Feeling that he had been defamed Saviano sued RAI for 4 700 000 euros in damages 49 Plagiarism dispute Edit Roberto Saviano in 2017 In 2013 Saviano and the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore publishing house were sentenced for plagiarism on appeal 50 The Appeals Court of Naples recognized that some pages of Gomorrah 0 6 of the entire book were the results of an illicit reproduction of some lines from two articles from local daily papers Cronache di Napoli and Corriere di Caserta 51 Therefore it partially modified the sentence from the first degree court in which the court had rejected the accusations made by the two newspapers and had instead condemned them to pay damages for having abusively reproduced two of Saviano s articles 52 this sentence was confirmed in the appeal 53 In the appeal the writer and Mondadori were ordered to jointly pay reparations for property and other damages of 60 000 Euros plus a portion of legal costs 54 The writer appealed the ruling at the Court of Cassation and the Supreme Court partially confirmed the sentence of the Appeals Court but called for a reconsideration of the damages evaluating 60 000 Euros to be an excessive sum for newspaper articles with a very limited readership 55 The Supreme Court did not agree with Saviano s appeal rejecting almost all of the findings and largely confirming the basic structure of the Appeals Court s sentence 56 1 In September 2015 journalist Michael C Moynihan wrote an article for The Daily Beast 57 criticizing ZeroZeroZero and accusing Saviano of having used sections of text including from Wikipedia without citing his sources In an article for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica 58 59 Saviano demonstrated how the passages from ZeroZeroZero and the presumed sources identified by Moynihan were manipulated in order to appear similar The English newspaper The Guardian 60 reported on the controversy with an article entitled Roberto Saviano dismisses plagiarism claims over latest book in which Saviano says I m not a journalist or a reporter but rather a writer and I recount real facts Saviano adds that Interpretations and theories have a provenance not mere facts those belong to all to those who recount them and to those who read them making them their own Among the various public personalities who have expressed their support of Roberto Saviano the then editor in chief of La Repubblica Ezio Mauro appeared in a video on the paper s website on 28 September 2015 61 to give his contribution to the Saviano case He repeated that the facts of the news are available to all and spoke about the typical iconoclasm toward famous people who have constructed success and visibility based on their own hard work and studies He continued by saying Saviano is paying for having an enormous following and above all for the fact that he hasn t remained comfortably in cultural obscurity Television EditOn 8 29 November 2010 Roberto Saviano hosted the cultural program Vieni via con me Come Away with Me with Fabio Fazio on Rai 3 The program had very successful ratings the third episode was seen by 9 671 000 viewers or 31 6 of the television audience that evening The show covered themes such as organized crime immigration women s emancipation politics and serious problems in Italian society The program typically features the reading of lists with the goal of highlighting the issues addressed through a series of data Numerous special guests appeared in the four episodes of the program Beginning on 14 May 2012 Saviano hosted the program Quello che non ho it What I don t have once again with Fabio Fazio It aired on La7 and was also streamed live on YouTube The first episode was a record for La7 with 12 65 or 3 036 000 viewers and was the third most watched program of the evening 62 This record was surpassed two days later with the third and final episode of the program which registered 13 06 of viewers For four weeks from 4 October 2017 Saviano hosted the show Kings of Crime it on the TV channel Nove where he spoke of the major Italian and international bosses of the organized crime system 63 Awards and honors Edit2010 European Book Prize 2011 PEN Pinter Prize 2011 Olof Palme Prize together with Lydia Cacho 64 Bachelor s degree honoris causa in law University of Genoa 22 January 2011 On 18 January 2012 Roberto Saviano was named honorary citizen of Milan 65 Asteroid 278447 Saviano discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli in 2007 was named in honor of Saviano s merits as writer and journalist 66 67 The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 April 2012 M P C 79108 68 On 7 June 2013 he officially received honorary citizenship of Florence from then mayor Matteo Renzi 2019 Oxfam Novib PEN Award for Freedom of Expression 69 Music EditBritish trip hop group Massive Attack wrote a song inspired by the story of Roberto Saviano and Gomorrah Titled Herculaneum it was featured in the soundtrack for the film Gomorrah Neapolitan rapper Lucariello wrote a song called Cappotto di legno Wooden Coat with music by Ezio Bosso Before writing the song Lucariello received Saviano s approval for it because it tells the story of a killer who is preparing to kill Saviano 70 The group Subsonica from Turin dedicated their song Piombo from the album L eclissi to the writer The end of the track In Italia by rapper Fabri Fibra contains part of Enzo Biagi s interview of Roberto Saviano in which the writer states One of my dreams was to remain in my own land to recount it and to continue how can I say it to resist The same rapper refers to Saviano in another one of his pieces In the track Teoria e Pratica from the EP Casus Belli he says Who would you like as president Me Saviano The song TammorrAntiCamorra from the album Suburb by the rap group A 67 contains the line smettiamo di essere Gomorra Let s Quit Being Gomorrah and is dedicated to the priest don Giuseppe Diana who was killed by the Camorra In the song Roberto Saviano reads a fragment of his book During the U2 concert in Rome on 8 October 2010 Bono mentioned Roberto Saviano two times and dedicated the group s famous song Sunday Bloody Sunday to the writer Saviano was at the concert and had met with the U2 frontman before the show Fabri Fibra cites Saviano and his book Gomorrah once again in the track Guerra e pace War and Peace on his eponymous 2013 album Clementino also cites Saviano in the song Mea Culpa on the album of the same name Saviano is cited by the Sardinian rapper Salmo in the track Nella pancia dello squalo In the Stomach of the Shark on the album The Island Chainsaw Massacre The journalist is cited in the track Perdona e dimentica Forgive and Forget by I Cani Saviano showed his appreciation for the one man band writing that his songs are among the best stories of our country Electronic anthropology The writer dedicated a section of his official site to music in the Galleries section 71 Bibliography EditThis list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items July 2020 Books Edit Gomorra Viaggio nell impero economico e nel sogno di dominio della camorra Milano Oscar Mondadori 2006 ISBN 978 88 04 56915 2 ISBN 88 04 55450 9 in Italian Gomorrah A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples Organized Crime System Farrar Straus and Giroux 2008 ISBN 978 0374165277 Beauty and the Inferno Essays Brooklyn NY Verso 2012 ISBN 9781844679508 La paranza dei bambini Milano Feltrinelli 2016 ISBN 9788807032073 in Italian The Piranhas The Boy Bosses of Naples Farrar Straus and Giroux 2018 ISBN 978 0374230029 Zero Zero Zero Milano Feltrinelli 2013 ISBN 978 8807030536 in Italian Zero Zero Zero Penguin Press 2015 ISBN 978 1594205507 Bacio feroce Milano Mondadori 2017 ISBN 978 8807891663 in Italian Savage Kiss A Novel Farrar Straus and Giroux 2020 ISBN 978 0374107956Short stories Edit Il contrario della morte 2007 Super Santos 2012 Essays Edit La bellezza e l inferno 2004 2009 Mondadori Milan 2009 ISBN 9788804594130 La parola contro la camorra Einaudi Turin 2010 published with DVD ISBN 978 88 06 20218 7 Vieni via con me Feltrinelli 2011 ISBN 978 88 07 49110 8Audiobooks Edit Se questo e un uomo If This Is a Man by Primo Levi read in Italian by Roberto Saviano Emons Rome 2013 ISBN 978 88 95703 93 0Miscellaneous Edit Preface to Anatole France s La rivolta degli angeli Padua Meridiano zero 2004 2009 Italian edition of France s The Revolt of the Angels A occhi aperti Le nuove voci della narrativa italiana raccontano la realta et al Milan Oscar Mondadori 2008 ISBN 978 88 04 58356 1 Raccontare la realta Un grande reporter americano incontra l autore di Gomorra con William Langewiesche Rome Internazionale 2008 Publication of the conversation between Saviano and William Langewiesche at the Ferrara Internazionale Literary Festival in 2007 Introduction to Michael Herr Dispacci Milan Bur 2008 Italian edition of Michael Herr s Dispatches Preface to Raffaele Sardo s La bestia Camorra storie di delitti vittime e complici Milan Melampo 2008 La Ferita Racconti per le vittime innocenti di camorra Naples ad est dell equatore 2009 Preface to Nanni Balestrini s Sandokan storia di camorra Rome DeriveApprodi 2009 Preface to Giuseppe Fava s Prima che vi uccidano Milan Bompiani 2009 Essay in Makeba la storia di Miriam Makeba Iesa Goree 2009 Italian edition of Makeba My Story Introduction to Anna Politkovskaja Cecenia Il disonore russo Rome Fandango 2009 Italian edition of Anna Politkovskaya s A Small Corner of Hell Dispatches from Chechnya LiberaMente Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana et al 3 voll Palermo Palumbo 2010 Preface to Andrea Pazienza s Astarte Rome Fandango 2010 Preface to Mario Gelardi s Liberami dal male La vera storia di Marco Marchese Naples ad est dell equatore 2010 Introduction to Joseph Conrad La linea d ombra Rome Gruppo Editoriale L Espresso 2011 Italian edition of Joseph Conrad s The Shadow Line Preface to Umberto Eco s Der ewige Faschismus Munich Hanser 2020 ISBN 978 3 446 26576 9 The Eternal Fascism A collection of several of Eco s works published in Italy as Il fascismo eterno and Migrazioni e intolleranza in 2018 and 2019 retranslated from the Italian English and French texts of Eco into German with a preface by Saviano Journalism Edit Un sogno leghista Nazione Indiana 21 February 2003 Pasta fagioli e clandestinita Diario 4 July 2003 La parola camorra non esiste Nazione Indiana 16 September 2003 L infinita congettura Nazione Indiana 27 February 2004 La citta di notte Nazione Indiana 22 March 2004 Annalisa Cronaca di un funerale Nazione Indiana 9 April 2004 L odiatore Nazione Indiana 4 May 2004 an abridged version of this article was published in Pulp Libri in 2003 Su Gustaw Herling Nazione Indiana 3 June 2004 from Pulp Libri n 48 Giancarlo Siani Nazione Indiana 11 June 2004 Mauro Curradi scrittore d Africa Nazione Indiana 17 July 2004 from Pulp Libri January 2003 Vi racconto di Marano e dei due compari Nazione Indiana 5 August 2004 L affermazione della liberta Intervista a Mauro Curradi Nazione Indiana 24 August 2004 Kaddish per Enzo Nazione Indiana 27 August 2004 La bugia perenne Nazione Indiana 23 September 2004 Lettera a Federico Del Prete Nazione Indiana 13 October 2004 La brillante carriera del giovane di sistema Nazione Indiana 26 October 2004 from Il manifesto 24 October 2004 Qui Nazione Indiana 23 November 2004 Il mestiere dei soldi Nazione Indiana 15 December 2004 from Sud Rivista di cultura arte e letteratura n 3 December 2004 Felicia Nazione Indiana 8 December 2004 Pandori e moda La camorra spa Nazione Indiana 23 December 2004 from Il manifesto 16 December 2004 Isaac Bashevis Singer Nazione Indiana 14 January 2005 from Pulp Libri n 52 November December 2004 Boss e poeti Nazione Indiana 13 February 2005 from Corriere della Sera Corriere del Mezzogiorno January 2005 Giuliana Sgrena quello che sta accadendo by Sergio Nazzaro and Roberto Saviano Nazione Indiana 25 February 2005 33 Nazione Indiana 14 March 2005 from Corriere della Sera Corriere del Mezzogiorno 13 March 2005 Ferdinando Tartaglia Fenomenologia di un eresia anarchica Nazione Indiana 10 April 2005 from Pulp n 53 January February 2005 Il matriarcato Nazione Indiana 14 May 2005 da Corriere della Sera Corriere del Mezzogiorno 16 April 2005 Scrivere sul fronte meridionale Lettera agli amici indiani Nazione Indiana 17 April 2005 La terra padre Nazione Indiana 2 June 2005 from Nuovi Argomenti n 30 April June 2005 Io so e ho le prove Nazione Indiana 2 December 2005 from Nuovi Argomenti n 32 October December 2005 Super santos pali e capistazione Nazione Indiana 10 October 2005 from Il pallone e tondo edited by Alessandro Leogrande L ancora del mediterraneo 2005 Scampia Erzegovina 13 July 2005 I Miserabili from Generazioni Nove per due L ancora del mediterraneo 2005 Langewiesche scrittore d aria di terra e di mare Nazione Indiana 2 December 2005 from Pulp Libri n 56 July August 2005 Inferno napoletano L espresso n 36 14 September 2006 Da Scampia si vede Pechino L espresso n 38 28 September 2006 E voi dove eravate L espresso n 46 21 November 2006 Quanto costa una parola L espresso n 52 4 January 2007 Vi racconto l impero della cocaina L espresso n 10 15 March 2007 Spartani di George Bush L espresso n 12 29 March 2007 Guai a raccontare questo paese L espresso n 15 19 April 2007 Io sto con gli indiani L espresso n 16 23 April 2007 Saviano Roberto 6 March 2012 TAV da Napoli alla Val di Susa le mani della mafia sui cantieri la Repubblica Rome 7 20 March 2019 Translated from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock The migrant caravan made in USA The New York Review of Books 66 4 14 16 Filmography EditCinema Edit Gomorrah 2008 directed by Matteo Garrone Tatanka 2011 directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi Piranhas 2019 directed by Claudio Giovannesi The Immortal 2019 directed by Marco D Amore TV Edit Gomorrah since 2014 directed by Stefano Sollima Francesca Comencini Claudio Cupellini Claudio Giovannesi and Marco D Amore ZeroZeroZero since 2019 directed by Stefano Sollima Janus Metz Pablo Trapero References Edit Il discorso di Saviano a Casal di Principe nel 2006 YouTube 23 April 2011 Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 Retrieved 10 March 2016 Mafia hunter Roberto Saviano I m a monster Stuff co nz 14 October 2014 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Saviano Roberto 29 June 2008 Striking Back Against the Mob The Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Where the Mob Keeps Its Money The New York Times Retrieved 10 March 2016 SAVIANO ROBERTO 13 March 2008 Maimed by the Mob Time ISSN 0040 781X Retrieved 4 March 2016 El valor olvidado EL PAIS in Spanish 17 May 2009 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Gift fur unsere Seelen Die Zeit ISSN 0044 2070 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Saviano Roberto 27 August 2007 Angst vor dem Erwachen Der Spiegel Vol 35 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Roberto Saviano om arets mest minnesvarda litterara mote Expressen Retrieved 7 March 2016 Saviano Roberto Roberto Saviano on the run from the Mafia The Times The Times Retrieved 7 March 2016 Saviano Roberto 12 January 2016 El Chapo Hollywood and the lure of the mob movie The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Roberto Saviano Italy s most hunted author Telegraph co uk Retrieved 4 March 2016 Roberto Saviano Vorrei essere un gorilla in Italian ioacquaesapone it 24 February 2017 Roberto Saviano Scourge of the Mafia and Reader of I B Singer Forward 20 July 2011 Retrieved 9 September 2011 Not Afraid to Die Haaretz 24 September 2007 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Roberto Saviano Roberto Saviano My life under armed guard World news The Guardian Retrieved 10 March 2016 Editori Laterza History of the Camorra www laterza it Retrieved 4 March 2016 Photographic image JPG Nazioneindiana com Retrieved 10 March 2016 Garrone Matteo 10 April 2009 Gomorrah retrieved 7 March 2016 Roberto Saviano leaves Mondadori PrimoCiak 26 January 2011 Retrieved 7 March 2016 Caso Ruby dedica di Saviano ai pm Marina Berlusconi Provo orrore Corriere della Sera www corriere it Retrieved 7 March 2016 Una giornata con Saviano le mie prigioni di velluto ilsole24ore com 28 November 2010 Retrieved 24 January 2012 Intervista esclusiva all altro Saviano La lotta alla mafia non ha colore panorama it 24 December 2009 Archived from the original on 30 August 2013 Retrieved 24 January 2012 Lloyd John 26 November 2010 Lunch with the FT Roberto Saviano Financial Times ISSN 0307 1766 Retrieved 4 March 2016 Raccolta firme per Roberto Saviano Archived from the original on 23 October 2008 Dickie John 12 January 2008 Gang rule The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 9 March 2016 Donadio Rachel 25 November 2007 Gomorrah Roberto Saviano Book Review The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 9 March 2016 Arts amp Culture i ITALY i Italy Retrieved 9 March 2016 Gomorrah to return for second series www screendaily com Retrieved 9 March 2016 Who is not against the Mafia in Italy Author Roberto Saviano raises controversial question The Irish Times Retrieved 15 March 2016 Rome Nick Squires in 14 October 2008 Mafia wants Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano dead by Christmas Telegraph co uk Retrieved 15 March 2016 Roberto Saviano living with the threat of death euronews 4 February 2009 Retrieved 15 March 2016 Author of mafia book under threat to quit Italy report ABC News 15 October 2008 Retrieved 15 March 2016 Io prigioniero di Gomorra lascio l Italia per riavere una vita cronaca Repubblica it www repubblica it Retrieved 15 February 2018 Nobel laureates slam threats against writer The Brunei Times Retrieved 11 April 2016 Per Saviano in campo gli scrittori boom di adesioni all appello dei Nobel cronaca Repubblica it www repubblica it Retrieved 11 April 2016 Saviano non doveva avere la scorta Corriere della Sera www corriere it in Italian Retrieved 24 February 2018 Squitieri fulmina Saviano Con la scorta al festival di Cannes per fare un po di show Corriere del Mezzogiorno Campania corrieredelmezzogiorno corriere it Retrieved 24 February 2018 Gomorra e polemica tra Squitieri e Procacci Movieplayer it in Italian Retrieved 24 February 2018 La scorta a Saviano e necessaria Corriere della Sera www corriere it in Italian Retrieved 24 February 2018 Video recording of the meeting between Roberto Saviano and Carmine Schiavone cooperating witness and uncle of boss Francesco Schiavone www youtube com Retrieved 24 February 2018 dead YouTube link Roberto Saviano www facebook com Retrieved 27 February 2018 CARMILLA Appello italiano per la liberazione di Cesare Battisti le prime 1 500 firme www carmillaonline com Retrieved 24 February 2018 panorama Intellettuali e pallottole quelli che firmarono per Battisti Panorama in Italian Archived from the original on 14 July 2014 Retrieved 24 February 2018 Articolo di Carmilla sullo scoop di Panorama Archived from the original on 21 January 2009 Roberto Saviano Israele luogo di liberta e accoglienza 11 October 2010 Archived from the original on 22 July 2012 Saviano difende Israele e viene insultato su Internet Il Sole 24 ORE www ilsole24ore com Retrieved 24 February 2018 Basta con il tifo parliamoci l Espresso in Italian 15 October 2012 Retrieved 24 February 2018 Saviano vs Corriere del Mezzogiorno chiesto risarcimento di oltre 4 mln per diffamazione www corriereweb net in Italian 7 May 2012 Archived from the original on 10 November 2012 Retrieved 24 February 2018 online Redazione Copiate alcune pagine di Gomorra Saviano e Mondadori condannati in appello Corriere del Mezzogiorno in Italian Retrieved 24 February 2018 Roberto Saviano condannato per plagio Copiate alcune pagine di Gomorra Blitz quotidiano www blitzquotidiano it in Italian 22 September 2013 Retrieved 24 February 2018 CasertaNews Gomorra Saviano condannato per plagio del Corriere di Caserta Caserta 23 settembre 2013 Notizie Caserta News it Caserta News Retrieved 11 March 2016 online Redazione Copiate alcune pagine di Gomorra Saviano e Mondadori condannati in appello Corriere del Mezzogiorno in Italian Retrieved 11 March 2016 Plagio in Gomorra Roberto Saviano condannato a pagare 60mila euro Fanpage in Italian Retrieved 26 February 2018 Roberto Saviano condannato in Cassazione ha copiato tre articoli in Gomorra Fanpage in Italian Retrieved 24 February 2018 Flood Alison 28 September 2015 Roberto Saviano dismisses plagiarism claims over latest book the Guardian Retrieved 26 February 2018 Moynihan Michael 24 September 2015 Mafia Author Roberto Saviano s Plagiarism Problem The Daily Beast Retrieved 11 March 2016 Saviano Vi spiego il mio metodo tra giornalismo e non fiction Repubblica it 25 September 2015 Retrieved 11 March 2016 Squires Nick 25 September 2015 Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano accused of plagiarism Telegraph co uk Retrieved 11 March 2016 Flood Alison 28 September 2015 Roberto Saviano dismisses plagiarism claims over latest book The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved 11 March 2016 Saviano la vendetta del politicamente scorretto Repubblica Tv la Repubblica it 28 September 2015 Retrieved 11 March 2016 La7 record con Saviano e Fazio oltre tre milioni share al 12 66 Repubblica it La Repubblica Retrieved 15 February 2018 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