Career
He debuted quite young with the novel "Louisiana Giovane Holding" (Comix, 1997), the psychedelic noir “In Paradiso” (DeriveApprodi, 2001) and the Bildungsroman “Il Bravo Figlio” (Rizzoli, 2006), receiving rave reviews by Fernanda Pivano in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. The novel “Il Duka in Sicilia” was published by Einaudi Stile libero in 2011. He wrote the screenplays “Il Duka” (Sacher Prize, 2003), which was published as a short story in Alias, the weekly supplement to Il Manifesto newspaper, and “Alma” (prize for Best Screenplay at BAFF 2010).
He has written and directed music videos and documentaries: “Buia era la Notte-Dark Was The Night” (2010) and “Songs With Other Strangers” (2010).
He contributes to music magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio and Mucchio Extra, who released in 2014 the two music reportage “Los Angeles: the sound of the desert” and “The sound of Berlin”. In January 2015 Mucchio Extra released the reportage "The sound of Detroit".
In 2012 he produced the musical reading “Il Duka in Sicilia, in Italy and New York". In 2013 he played the new novel musical reading (“Number Strangers Blues”, temporary title), reading pages of the book and playing the Mississippi Delta bluesman “cigar box guitar” auto-built.
Vittorio Bongiorno lives in Bologna.
