Il sito ufficiale di Sciltian Gastaldi

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	(Biography...)
	What I do, Ever since I was young I have wanted to do three things: become a Serie A soccer player, a firefighter or a journalist. Seeing as how Mother Nature didn't give me a magical foot, or cured my vertigo, I focused all of my efforts on writing. Today, my business card says that I am a professional, freelance journalist; as if to say that I've almost made it! I was born in Rome and lived there until I was 25-years-old, then I traveled around studying, working, etc.: Bologna, Urbino, Canada and many other pleasant places. I graduated with a degree in Political Science and Modern History. As an up-and-coming journalist I have won the prizes "Erich Fromm" 2001 and the "Mario Formenton" scholarship 2002, that opened the doors to some important collaborations, like Diario della settimana and, an accomplice chair-bed (but don't get the wrong idea!) Donna di Repubblica (the Saturday supplement of La Repubblica). What I write, I began writing when I was three-years-old, and I haven't stopped yet. Before the story "A Family", I never thought about publishing fiction, but as I got older I grew to like it and above all because I lost my inhibitions. Since the end of 2004 and of my first novel, Angeli da un'ala soltanto (One-winged Angels) and also my first work of essays, the volume of political history of the cinema Fuori i rossi da Hollywood! Il maccartismo e il cinema americano (Reds Out of Hollywood! The McCarthy era and American Cinema) All of my books and published collections can be bought in a book store or on the sites www.lafeltrinelli.com, www.bol.com, www.internetbookshop.it and www.unilibro.it. What will I do? Because my philosophy is that life is what happens while we are busy making other plans, I always try to knock on every door and then see which opens first. As of now I can tell you that I have finished my second book, the collection of short stories "Couples", and I'm working on my second novel "Smoke Rings" (that is also the name of my blog) and I have just moved to Toronto, Canada. Here they have awarded me with a Doctorate in Philosophy in Italian Literature, with a scholarship and Teaching Assistance in Intermediate Italian Grammar. It's not much use to say that I tried to obtain a doctorate in Italy about a dozen times, but I had a change of heart when I learned that recommendations matter more than the titles or the published books. Anyways, I'm following my dream in Canada: to write and teach, those are the two things that I do best. Ask to see my resume (65 Kb)