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Andrea G. Pinketts, alter ego, the former model-boxer-kendo instructor-investigative reporter-bounty hunter-wealthy heir-enfant prodige-playboy-urban cowboy-righter of wrongs-poker player Lazzaro Santandrea, and his longtime friends and drinking buddies Pogo, De Sade, journalists Motoya and Alice Marradi, and the infallible Gilles Regard, tackle the relationship between hair (“depilando” means shaving) and skin, with Pilar and the now faded Milan bar scene, on a case featuring taxi drivers, victims and murderers driven to kill by an incomprehensible raptus. Along the way, Santandrea also picks up a bad case of genital warts.
Born to an Italian mother and Irish father, Andrea G. Pinketts (Milan; his middle initial stands for Genio, or Genius) was expelled from high school for run-ins with the principal and avoided military service by presenting himself as a psychopath. A former model (for, among others, Armani), martial arts instructor and investigative reporter, he helped with the arrest of Luigi Chiatti, went undercover as a Satan worshipper to nail the Bambini di Satana (“Children of Satan”), lived homeless for a month at the Milan train station, and was a porn actor at Mi-Sex, the Milan sex fair. In 1993 he founded a literary movement that explores reality through crime novels and is also co-creator of the trash comic Laida Odius. He was presented with the Medal of Honor of the Assemblée Nationale de la Rèpublique Française for Artistic and Cultural Merit and won the first edition of the Scerbanenco Award in 1996. Pinketts’ numerous prizes include the Le Muse Award and multiple honors at Mystfest. He worked as a “sheriff” for the town of Cattolica, edited the Enciclopedia dei Serial Killer and has collaborated with Il Giallo Mondadori, Segretissimo. He is often a guest on popular TV shows, most recently on Misteri, and writes his books in the bar Le trottoir, always by hand, with a ballpoint pen. |
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08/12/2011 ore 18:00
Jardin de l'Ange |
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