Paolo Brera

Paolo Brera (Milan, 1949) is an Italian novelist and journalist [1].

Biography

Paolo Alberto Brera, an Italian novelist, journalist, economist, and translator, is the third son of writer Gianni Brera and teacher Rina Gramegna. He earned a degree in Political Economy from Bocconi University,[2] 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 and Eastern Europe,[3] publishing some fifty works in specialized journals.[4] 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, ItaliaOggi and Il Secolo XIX. He has contributed articles to Labour Weekly, Exormissi, Die Neue Gesellschaft,[5] Il Corriere della Sera, L'Avanti, Tages Anzeiger, Corriere del Ticino, Panorama, Mondo economico, and others. In 1989 and 1990 he was editor-in-chief of the Italian edition of the Russian journal Moskovskie Novosti.[6] From 1997 to 2002 he edited and published the magazine Brera,[7] devoted to the Brera district of Milan.[8]

Since 2000, he has published detective and science fiction[9] novels and stories,[10] as well as translations into Italian from English, French,[11] Russian,[12] Polish[13] and Spanish [14] works.

Brera has been dividing his time between Nice (France) and Milan since 2008.

Books by Paolo Brera

References

  1. ^ Ordine dei Giornalisti della Lombardia, Albo degli Iscritti, http://www.odg.mi.it/albo/albo.php
  2. ^ http://www.alumnibocconi.it/
  3. ^ See biographical introduction to Paolo BRERA, "Selbstverwaltung und ökonomische Entwicklung. Das jugoslawische Wachstumsmodell in den 70er Jahren und seine Krise in den 80er Jahren", Die Neue Gesellschaft, N. 3, March 1983, 30. Jahrgang, Bonn.
  4. ^ See Philip JOSEPH, OBE, The Contribution Of the Economics Colloquium To NATO’s Economic Agenda. An Evolution Over 30 Years, p. 24, at http://www.nato.int/docu/colloq/1999/pdf/332-371.pdf
  5. ^ http://www.bpb.de/themen/9IZ7N5,0,Fakten%3A_SPD.html
  6. ^ Colophon di Mosca News, a Mondadori monthly magazine, 15 April 1990, Milano.
  7. ^ Lina Sotis, Corriere della Sera, 6 November 1998.
  8. ^ http://www.brera.net
  9. ^ http://web.tiscalinet.it/fantascienzaitaliana/narrativa/romanzi.html#Dagmar%20la%20terrestre
  10. ^ http://www.alacranedizioni.it/?p=773
  11. ^ Don Giovanni. Un progetto di Paolo Brera, with works by Balzac, Pushkin, Zorrilla and Gianni Brera, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera, Milano, Alacrán, 2007.
  12. ^ I.S.Turgenev, Primo amore, Periplo, Lecco, 1995, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera.
  13. ^ Henryk Sienkiewicz, Bartek il Trionfatore, trad. e prefazione di Paolo Brera, Milano, La Vita Felice, 1995, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera.
  14. ^ Don Giovanni. Un progetto di Paolo Brera, with works by Balzac, Puškin, Zorrilla and Gianni Brera, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera, Milano, Alacrán, 2007.