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| Roberto Saviano was born in Naples in 1979. He is the author of the international bestseller Gomorra which has sold over ten million copies and been translated into over fifty languages worldwide. The film adaptation of Gomorra was winner of the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Saviano’s journalism has been widely published, including in la Repubblica, L’Espresso, the Washington Post, The New York Times, El País, Die Zeit, Expressen and Dagens Nyheter in Sweden, and The Times in the UK.
He has been living under police escort protection since October 2006, following threats received from the criminal organisations that he had denounced. In 2008 six Nobel Prize-winning authors and intellectuals made a public statement of their support for Saviano, and in November of the same year he was invited by the Nobel Committee in Stockholm to give a lecture on “Freedom of Speech and Lawless Violence.”
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