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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s not just children leaving books on the shelf. A recent YouGov poll found that 40 per cent of Britons haven’t read or ...

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.

The book was adapted into a film and later a TV series. The Camorra clans in Naples placed a contract on Mr. Saviano’s life and he went into hiding, surrounded at all times by Italian police ...

“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).