Roberto Saviano

Quick Facts

Full Name	Roberto Saviano
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Sep 22, 1979(1979-09-22)
Age	45
Birthplace	Naples
Country	Italy
Birth City	Campania
Horoscope	Virgo

Roberto Saviano Biography

Roberto Saviano is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on September 22, 1979 in Naples, Campania, Italy. International journalist and author best known for his investigative reporting about organized crime and the Italian Mafia. His bestselling books ZeroZeroZero and Gomorrah made him famous. His book inspired him to create the Italian television crime series Gomorrah.

Gunter GRASS was also an Author and Roberto Saviano received police protection after his book Gomorrah.

Such a theory, according to the director of the Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Marco Demarco, came from an “anonymous source” reported by Ugo Pirro in the magazine Oggi in 1950. Actually, two detailed sources document the episode described by Saviano. A later and better known one is by Carlo del Balzo who describes the tragedy suffered by the Croce family in a book published shortly after the event: Cronaca del Tremuoto di Casamicciola (Report on the Casamicciola Earthquake) (Naples: Carluccio, De Blasio & Co., 1883). Nevertheless, there is also a previous book drawn on by Carlo del Balzo. It’s called Ricordi. Casamicciola e le sue rovine. Cenni storici – Geografici – Cronologici (Memories. Casamicciola and its ruins. Historical – Geographic – Chronological Accounts) (Naples: Prete, 1883.). The passage taken by del Balzo is the following:

Roberto Saviano (Italian: [roˈbɛrto saˈvjaːno] ; born September 22, 1979) is an Italian writer, essayist and screenwriter. In his writings, including articles and his book Gomorrah (his debut that brought him fame), he uses literature and investigative reporting to tell of the economic reality of the territory and business of the Camorra crime syndicate and of organized crime more generally.

He was born in Naples, Italy. He studied philosophy at University of Naples Federico II.

Roberto Saviano Net Worth

Roberto Saviano is one of the richest Journalist from Italy. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Roberto Saviano 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2002, he began his career in journalism by writing for publications like Pulp, Diario and Sud.

Due to his book Gomorrah which exposes the Naples mafia he received death threats and has been forced to live under police protection.

Saviano was accused by the granddaughter of Benedetto Croce, Marta Herling, of having written a dishonest article about the Abruzzese philosopher. The writer affirmed that during the 1883 earthquake of Casamicciola in which he lost his parents and sister, Croce allegedly followed his dying father’s advice and offered 100,000 lire (a very large sum for the time) to whoever helped him out from under the rubble. The testimony taken up by Saviano during the show Vieni via con me (Come away with me) in 2010, was denied by Herling in a letter published in the Corriere del Mezzogiorno and in two interviews given to TG1, during which she explicitly maintained that the writer invented the episode.

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In March 2006, his first book, Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System, was published as part of Mondadori’s Strade Blu series. It is a journey into the business and criminal world of the Camorra and of the places where the organization was born and lives: the region of Campania, the city of Naples, the towns of Casal di Principe, San Cipriano d’Aversa, and the territory around Aversa known as the agro aversano. Having grown up there, the author introduces the reader to a reality that is unknown to outsiders. The book talks about criminal bosses’ sumptuous villas copied from Hollywood films; rural lands filled with the toxic waste of half of Europe; a population that not only cohabitates with this organized crime but even protects it and approves of its actions. Therefore, the author writes about a System (this is the real name used to refer to the Camorra) that attracts new recruits before adolescence, making them believe that theirs is the only possible life choice; about baby-bosses who are convinced that the only way to die like a real man is to be killed; and about a criminal phenomenon influenced by media spectacle, in which bosses base their clothes and movements on film stars.

Facts & Trivia

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After the first death threats of 2006 made by the Casalesi clan of the Camorra, a clan which he had denounced in his exposé and in the piazza of Casal di Principe during a demonstration in defense of legality, Roberto Saviano was put under a strict security protocol. Since October 13, 2006, he has lived under police protection.

Is Roberto Saviano still in hiding?

But although he survived an assassination plot, Saviano has nonetheless paid a high price. Since that autumn day in 2006, when the Italian authorities informed the writer that his life was in danger, he has lived in hiding , emerging only under police escort.

Who is the head of the Gomorrah?

Roberto Saviano
Occupation| Writer journalist screenwriter
Nationality| Italian
Period| 2000–present
Notable works| Gomorrah ZeroZeroZero Piranhas

When was Gomorrah written?

AuthorRoberto Saviano
Language| Italian/Neapolitan
Genre| Nonfiction
Publisher| Mondadori
Publication date| 2006

Where was Roberto Saviano born?

Naples, Italy

Is Gomorrah a true story?

Romanzo Criminale was based on a novel that told the true story of the Magliana gang in Rome. Gomorrah, a 2008 film by Matteo Garrone, which had a brutally stark aesthetic, was based on the work of journalist Roberto Saviano in exposing the Camorra crime syndicate.