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Name: Giovanni
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.
Hometown: Moncalieri
Country: Italy
Occupation: Writer, novelist, editor, translator
Interests and Hobbies: Reading, writing and misbehaving.
Movies and Shows: Tim Burton, David Lynch, Gregg Araki, Frank Capra, Savage Steve Holland, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Terence Fisher, Nanni Moretti, Kevin Smith, Richard Linklater, Denys Arcand, Terry Gilliam
Music: Ramones, eels, Screeching Weasel, Jack Off Jill, Sisters Of Mercy, Gathering, Type O Negative, Bright Eyes, Belle & Sebastian, Social Distortion, AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails, Backyard Babies, Billy Bragg, Chet Baker, Judy Henske, Francoise Hardy, Rob Zombie, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr, Queers, Luca Carboni, Prozac +, 883, Manges, Paolo Conte, Sorella Maldestra, Pet Shop Boys, Zodiac Mindwarp, Guns 'N Roses
Books: Tommaso Landolfi, Dino Buzzati, Francesca Lia Block, Banana Yoshimoto, Boris Vian, John Fante, Stephen King, Will Christopher Baer, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Caitlin Kiernan, Poppy Brite, Jack Ketchum, Tom Piccirilli, Ken Bruen, Andrew Vachss, Charles Bukowski, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Easton Ellis, Anais Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Michael Weldon, Rick Sullivan, Douglas Coupland, James O' Barr, Roman Dirge, Adrian Tomine, Jonen Vasquez, Edward Gorey, Andrea Pazienza, Stefano Tamburini, Tanino Liberatore, Massimo Mattioli, Benito Jacovitti, Dan Clowes, Charles Burns, Chester Brown, Robert Crumb, Davide Toffolo, Miguel Angel Martin, Kevin Taylor, Junko Mizuno, Michael Manning, Guido Crepax, Suehiro Maruo
Website: http://www.giovanniarduino.com
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