The writer has won a moral victory in court, after 17 years, against a whole movement in Italy, especially on the far right, ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italian anti-Mafia author Roberto Saviano wept in court on Monday as judges upheld a conviction against a notorious mob boss who was found to have threatened him. Francesco Bidognetti, ...

Robert Saviano is the author of “Gomorrah,” a fine non-fiction book about the Camorra, Naples’ centuries-old organized crime group. The book was adapted into a film and later a TV series.

In the graphic novel Saviano recalls witnessing Camorra assassinations in the street in broad daylight and how his book’s huge success has impacted his personal freedom, forcing him at one point ...

The Neapolitan mob, took out a contract on him in 2006 for exposing their crimes, he has mega-bestselling book Gomorrah. Meet the man living in the shadows Roberto Saviano ...

The book also formed the basis for the six-season high-end series, produced by Sky Italia, Fandango, Cattleya, and Beta and directed by Stefano Sollima, Francesca Comencini and Claudio Cupellini.

“It’s an essential part of this country [Italy], its economic avant-garde.” Saviano’s book has already been turned into a film, Matteo Garrone ‘s award-winning Gomorrah (2008).

Italian star author Robert Saviano, whose mob exposé “Gomorrah” spawned both Matteo Garrone’s eponymous prizewinning movie and the groundbreaking crime series that plays stateside on HBO ...