Silvio Fazio

Silvio Fazio (April 9, 1952 – May 9, 2024) was an Italian writer. He was born in Rome, Italy.

Biography
Fazio graduated from accounting at the Institute Sandro Botticelli in Rome. He left Italy in 1977 to live in Nice, France. Fazio was the union representative for Workers' Force Ouvrière, from 2002 to 2010. In 2002 he signed the agreement for a reduction in working hoursNews France Television 12/07/2002 for two hotels on the French Riviera.

In 2006, Silvio Fazio published his first science fiction novel: Il Segreto della grande porta. In 2010 he wrote the biography of Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, Il Profeta di Satana. In 2012, the author released Où les Dieux vont mourir (French), that challenges the official interpretation given by the FBI after the massacre at Columbine High School and in two documentary films, Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore) and Elephant (Gus Van Sant). On April 6, 2009 the writer survives the terrible earthquake in Abruzzo (l’Aquila) and harshly criticized the Italian government for its deficiency of efficacy in the relief efforts for the victims.

The author doesn't like the society gossip column and he declines any International Book Fair that he considers not-literary conventions. Fazio wrote some shorts novels for anthologies for Perrone Publisher and, sometimes, he use pseudonyms. 

Fazio died on May 9, 2024 in Nice, France, one month after his 72nd birthday.

Published works

 Fiction 
 2006 : Il segreto della grande porta (Aletti) 
 2007 : I labirinti di Zeus (Aletti) 
 2007 : Tra l'alba e il tramonto (Aletti) 
 2007 : La diligenza della verità (UniService) 
 2007 : L'antro del mai (Phasar) 
 2008 : Un grido nell'acqua (Boopen) 
 2008 : Beelzebul (Boopen) 
 2008 : Le torri del male (Boopen) 
 2010 : Il Profeta di Satana (Stampa Alternativa) 
 2012 : Où les Dieux vont mourir (Edilivre) 

 Shorts Novels for Giulio Perrone Publisher 
 2008 : La vita che vorrei      pseudonym Silvio Rotti
 2008 : Vivo per lei           
 2009 : Sono nato un 9 aprile   pseudonym Fabrizio Spampinato
 2009 : Lester                  pseudonym Claudio Nasica
 2009 : L'Isola del peccato     pseudonym Massimo Russaiolo
 2009 : La carezza del male    
 2009 : La Bussola             
 2009 : Io un superbo?         pseudonym Elena Spampinato

References

Other websites
 Historical archives of the Botticelli school.  
 Video Où les Dieux vont mourir
 Web article for the book Il Profeta di Satana 
 Article Voila.com about the Author
 Google Books

Category:2024 deaths
Category:1952 births
Category:Writers from Rome