Marco Steiner

Marco Steiner Biography / Bibliography Marco Steiner is an Italian writer born in Rome in 1956, he lives between Rome and New York. He worked with Hugo Pratt, the creator of the comic Cult character “Corto Maltese”, from 1989 to 1995. In 1996, after Pratt's death, he completed the novel "Corte Sconta detta Arcana", published by Einaudi. Together with the Swiss photographer Marco D'Anna, he traveled between Europe, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and South America between 2004 and 2010 and the geographical places crossed in Corto Maltese’s stories became the preface of 14 adventures of the famous Pratt’s sailor . The book "I luoghi dell’avventura" published by Rizzoli-Lizard collects the summaries of all the preface in a single volume. Marco Steiner continued to travel with the photographer Marco D'Anna until 2017 for another project called "Corto Maltese’s Itineraries", making a story for each trip, some of which were collected in the volume "Miraggi di memoria" published in 2018 by Nuages in Italy and illustrated by the Argentine designer José Muñoz. The same book with the title "Mirages de la mémoire" was published in France by Casterman in 2019. Other books: After a trip to Patagonia and North America in the footsteps of "Tango" by Hugo Pratt, he made his first novel, "L’ultima pista", in 2006 (Cadmo Edizioni). "Il Corvo di Pietra" (2014) is a novel in which Steiner tells the story of a young Corto Maltese adventure, it was published in Italy by Sellerio and in France by Denoël ("Le corbeau de pierre"). "Oltremare" is the second novel about Corto Maltese's youth and was published in Italy by Sellerio in 2015." Oltremare" won the Emilio Salgari Adventure Literature Award in 2016. Together with the Swiss photographer Marco D’Anna and the master of photography Gianni Berengo Gardin Steiner realized "Il gioco delle perle di Venezia" for Rizzoli-Lizard. He wrote and directed the Corto Maltese theater show, "Conversation with Irene of Boston", a multimedia performance hosted at the "Les rencontres inattendues" Philosophy and Music Festival in Tournai in Belgium, on September 1, 2017. With the photographers Gianni Berengo Gardin and Marco D'Anna and the psychologist and psychotherapist Antonio Dragonetto he wrote "Isole di ordinaria follia" published by Marcianum Press, a series of stories born freely from the medical records of the hospitalized in the asylum of San Servolo in the Venetian lagoon.