Tullio Avoledo (born 1 June 1957) is an Italian novelist.[1]
Avoledo was born in Valvasone, in the province of Pordenone (Friuli-Venezia Giulia). After earning a degree in law, he worked as legal counselor for banks.
His first novel, L'elenco telefonico di Atlantide, released in January 2003 by the minor Italian publisher Sironi, turned into a best-seller and won the Fort Village Montblanc Award for the best debutant writer. Avoledo showed the ability to draw the reader into the science fiction-like of a mysterious global plot involving a character modelled somehow on the author himself. In November of the same year his second novel, Mare di Bering, was published.
His last novel for Sironi was Lo stato dell'unione of 2005. In that year his first novel for Einaudi, one of the most renowned Italian publishers (which had also issued pocket editions of the former two), was released, under the title Tre sono le cose misteriose. With this fourth book, in 2006 Avoledo won the prestigious Grinzane Award.
The following Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti is a novel where characters (like Giulio Rovedo and Cecilia Mazzi) and situations of L'elenco telefonico di Atlantide are revisited (even if with some significant differences), with a new plot set in the world of the global economics and of the industrial delocalization. A movie inspired by this novel, directed by Davide Marengo and starring Guido Caprino, Carolina Crescentini, Maya Sansa and Philippe Leroy, will be on the movie screens in mid 2012.
La ragazza di Vajont is set in a dystopic alternate Italy dominated by a fascist regime, and plunged into a seemingly endless winter.
L'ultimo giorno felice is a short novel which Avoledo wrote for Legambiente, an environmental organization in Italy. The plot is centered on the predicaments of a young architect, Francesco Salvador, selling for money his soul to the mafia. The novel describes the last hours of Francesco, during an exclusive tour of the Venetian lagoon.
Science fiction is often present in the works of Avoledo. Avoledo's novel L'anno dei dodici inverni (2009) deals with time travel, love and redemption, in a mix of science fiction themes and intimistic narration. In 2011 he published another science fiction novel, Un buon posto per morire, in collaboration with Davide "Boosta" Dileo, keyboard player of the Turinese band Subsonica. The novel won the Emilio Salgari Prize 2012 for the best Italian adventure novel.
The last novel of Avoledo is Metro 2033: Le radici del cielo, written for the Metro 2033 Universe project set up by Dmitry Glukhovski. The book has been published in Italy by Multiplayer.it.