Michele Marziani

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Michele Marziani (born 16 May 1962) is an Italian novelist and journalist. He spent about twenty years as a journalist focusing on social issues, the environment, regional development and Italian wine and food culture. In 2007 he left journalism to devote himself mainly to fiction, though he continued to publish travel essays and practical manuals.

His first novel, La trota ai tempi di Zorro (2006), uses the innocent perspective of a child and trout fishing to explore the years of terrorism. He followed with Umberto Dei, biografia non autorizzata di una bicicletta (2008), the story of a finance broker who quits his job to become a bicycle mechanic in Milan, a place of meetings, loves and adventures. La signora del caviale (2009) is set among sturgeon fishermen downstream of the Po River during World War II. Barafonda (Deephollow) (2011) offers a hard, poetic and ironic view of contemporary troubles. Un ombrello per le anguille (2012) is a collection of stories where eels, like words, tell about fishing, life, memories and feelings at dawn and sunset.

Marziani lives in Rimini, having spent years by Lake Orta and in Milan. In 2017, La signora del caviale was reissued in a new edition by Antonio Tombolini Editore as part of Officina Marziani. In January 2018, it became his first translated work, The Caviar Lady, translated by Anna Carruthers with covers by Marta D’Asaro.