Beppe Sebaste
Beppe Sebaste (; born 3 June 1959 in Parma) is an Italian writer, poet, translator, and journalist. Graduated in aesthetics at the University of Bologna with Luciano Anceschi, he received his PhD from the same university, then moved to Geneva, Paris, and Pietrasanta. He currently lives between Rome and a small town in Umbria, Italy. Among his books, "H. P." tells the inner story of Henri Paul, the driver involved in the Death of Diana, Princess of Wales; "Porte senza porta" (expanded as "Il libro dei maestri", aka "the book of teachers" meaning in several and various disciplines) is  a collection of personal meetings and some conversations which includes Bruno Hussar, Taizan Maezumi, Bruno Munari, Terry Riley, Steve Paxton, Alessandro Fersen, Daniel de Montmollin, Emmanuel Levinas, Luigi Ghirri, Elisabeth Bing, Raimon Panikkar, Mary Catherine Bateson, Frédéric de Towarnicki, and others. In 2004, he continued the meetings in a radio programme by Rai Radio 3, including Aldo Gargani, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Giulia Niccolai, etc. He writes for newspapers such as "L'Unità" and "la Repubblica".