Paolo Brera
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Biography
Paolo Alberto Brera, an Italian novelist, journalist, economist, and translator, is the third son of writer Gianni BreraGianni Brera
Giovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.-Biography:Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni...
and teacher Rina Gramegna. He earned a degree in Political Economy from Bocconi University
Bocconi University
Bocconi University is a private university located in central Milan, beside Parco Ravizza. Bocconi provides undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate education, in addition to a range of double degree programs, in the fields of economics, management, finance and law. According to many university...
, where he was Assistant Professor of Economic History from 1974 to 1978.
In 1976 he married Clelia Bertello and later on Rosetta Griglié. With the latter he had two daughters, Jalée (born 1985) and Lavinia Lys (born 1987).
From 1978 to 1981 he worked at the Italian subsidiary of the French oil company Total, exporting oil products and pursuing his research programme as a side occupation. Until 1985 he was a member of the Italian Socialist Party's (PSI) Economic Commission.
Brera researched the planned economies of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
and Eastern Europe, publishing some fifty works in specialized journals. He was a member of the Association Internationale des Économistes de Langue Française (International Association of French-Language Economists) and submitted papers on Eastern Europe at the NATO Headquarters in Bruxelles and in Rome.
Later, Brera became a journalist at Critica Sociale
Critica Sociale
Critica Sociale is a left-wing Italian newspaper. It is linked to the social democratic Partito Socialista Nuovo PSI party. Before Benito Mussolini banned opposition newspapers in 1926, Critica Sociale was a prominent supporter of the original Italian Socialist Party , which included a spectrum of...
, ItaliaOggi and Il Secolo XIX
Il Secolo XIX
Il Secolo XIX is an Italian newspaper published in Genoa, Italy, founded in March 1886, subsequently acquired by Ferdinando Maria Perrone in 1897 from Ansaldo.Is one of the first italian newspapers to be printed in colour....
. He has contributed articles to Labour Weekly
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
, Exormissi, Die Neue Gesellschaft, Il Corriere della Sera, L'Avanti, Tages Anzeiger, Corriere del Ticino
Corriere del Ticino
Corriere del Ticino is the leading regional newspaper in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. The Italian language daily has a distribution of 40,000. It is published in Muzzano....
, Panorama, Mondo economico, and others. In 1989 and 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of the Russian journal Moskovskie Novosti. From 1997 to 2002 he edited and published the magazine Brera
Brera
Brera is a district of Milan, ItalyBrera may also refer to:* the Palazzo Brera, a historical building in Brera; the palace also houses:** the Brera Art Academy** the Brera Art Gallery** the Brera Astronomical Observatory...
, devoted to the Brera district of Milan.
Since 2000, he has published detective and science fiction novels and stories, as well as translations into Italian from English, French, Russian, Polish and Spanish works.
Brera has been dividing his time between Nice
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
(France) and Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
since 2008.
Books by Paolo Brera
- Denaro. Scritti di economia e letteratura, Brescia, Shakespeare & Company, 1985.
- Dagmar la terrestre (Dagmar the Earthling), Bologna, Perseo Libri, 1992.
- Annuario economico del calcio italiano (An Economic Yearbook of Italian Football), Co-Authored By Alberto Scherillo, MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Baldini e Castoldi, 1995. - Aurore (poems), Introduction By Leonardo Coen, Milan, Otma Edizioni, 2002.
- Emergenza fame. Il paradosso del mondo opulento (The Hunger Emergency. The Paradox Of An Affluent World), an essay, Milan, San Paolo, 2003 (Famiglia Cristiana).
- Gioanfucarlo (a biography of Gianni BreraGianni BreraGiovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.-Biography:Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni...
) (co-authored By Claudio Rinaldi), MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Boroli, 2004. - Miti seri ed inversi (poems), prefaced By Vladimir Nabokov, Milan, Otma Edizioni, 2004.
- Il veleno degli altri (The Others' Poison), Lugano, Todaro Editore, 2006.
- Il denaro degli altri (The Others' Money), Treviso, Editing, 2006.
- Due secoli di Milano e non immediati dintorni (Two centuries of Milan and Surroundings), a poem, Turin, Aragno, 2007.
- Don Giovanni. Un progetto di Paolo Brera, with works by Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon....
, Alexander Pushkin, José Zorrilla and Gianni BreraGianni BreraGiovanni Luigi "Gianni" Brera was an Italian sports journalist and novelist.-Biography:Brera was born in San Zenone al Po, near Pavia, the son of Carlo, a tailor, and Marietta Ghisoni...
, translated by Paolo Brera, Milan, Alacrán, 2007. - La prigione degli altri (The Others' Prison), Milan, BookTime, 2008.
- La mobile. Racconti metropolitani (The Fast Intervention Squad. Metropolitan Tales), (co-authored by Celeste Bruno), Milan, Mursia, 2009.
- L'artificiere (co-authored by Celeste Bruno), Pavia, Altravista, 2010.
- Il visconte http://www.sperling.it/sperling/statici/rightslist.pdf, co-authored by Andrea Carlo Cappi, Milano, Sperling&Kupfer, 2011.
- Eos. Sparare nel mucchio. Scritti di tuttologia applicata, Bagnacavallo, Discanti, 2011.