Giorgio Messori

Giorgio Messori (Reggio Emilia, 1955-2006) is the author of stories that have appeared in numerous books and magazines. He made his debut as a writer by combining his stories with those of Beppe Sebaste in the volume L’ultimo buco nell’acqua (Aelia Laelia 1983). Other stories have been published in magazines such as “Il semplice” (Feltrinelli), “Riga” (Marcos y Marcos) and Narratori delle riserve (Feltrinelli, 1992), the anthology edited by Gianni Celati.
He translated Peter Bichsel’s book Il lettore, il narratore (The reader, the narrator) (Marcos y Marcos, 1989) and has written essays on literature and art; in particular photography. Giorgio Messori has taken inspiration from his friendship with Luigi Ghirri to write Atelier Morandi (Palomar, 1992), an idea created together with Ghirri and Il senso delle cose. Luigi Ghirri Giorgio Morandi (Diabasis 2005).
In 2005 Diabasis published his first novel and masterpiece, Nella città del pane e dei postini (Sandro Onofri Award 2005 and finalist for the Viareggio Prize for best first novel 2005)
Diabasis will publish his short stories Storie invisibili and Viaggio in un paesaggio terrestre, in collaboration with the photographer Vittore Fossati.