Maurizio Pianaro

Maurizio Pianaro, a fifty-two years old Italian has been many things in his life: a student, a restaurant worker, a gemstones trader, a freelance journalist. He was just eighteen years old when he spent six months in Cambodia witnessing the fall of that Country by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge. In that period he met a group of Air America pilots and joined them in their flights.

He has an extensive knowledge of Asian affairs and he lives and works between Italy and the Indochinese region.

He uses a terse and concise style, as if he was writing online when one is forced to be synthetic and he considers synthesis the most important task for a Digital Age’s writer: the outcome is a mixture of literature and screenplay.

Grammar errors are made but left uncorrected because they are part of a direct and impulsive style; exempt of literary dignity. Not written for posterity but for vast audiences in mind these narrations take into account the influence that photography and cinema had in the 20th Century.

It takes pages upon pages to describe a single scene, that way every detail is incorporated. The course visuals in his works leave much to the imagination. The input of his narrations may be people he met, places he traveled, facts he participated or, simply, taking inspiration from news events.