Pier Mario Giovannone

Pier Mario Giovannone was born in Cuneo in 1974. He graduated in classical guitar and holds a degree in literature with a thesis on David Maria Turoldo. He taught Italian Literature at the University of London, worked as an editor at a Turin publishing house, directed the E. di Mirafiore Foundation in the Langhe hills, and currently works in Genoa as a cultural promoter. He is the founder of the international competition for monologue authors, Per Voce Sola (chaired by Guido Davico Bonino), and of the Coro popolare della Maddalena, a project created to promote integration and social harmony. He has published poetry collections, literary criticism, and the children's book Girotondo dielefante (Gallucci), a nursery rhyme set to music by Giua and the Banda Osiris.