Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher


Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher is an Italian writer, storyteller and stage actor.
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Biography

Ghebreigziabiher was born in Naples to an Eritrean father and an Italian mother and currently lives in Rome. There, he obtained a Computer science University degree at La Sapienza University.
He is author of novels and short stories, a professional storyteller often involved in intercultural and anti-racist education with projects and festivals.
His first book, Tramonto, Lapis Edizioni, in 2003 was included by the International Youth Library inside The White Ravens, an annual list that includes 250 books from around the world considered especially noteworthy.
Since 2007 he was artistic director of the Italian Storytelling Festival Il dono della diversità, thirteenth edition in 2019.
Barry Bradford, American speaker, historian and writer who contributed to reopen the Edgar Ray Killen case, appreciated his short story Il coraggio della speranza, about James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and wrote the preface for his book Amori diversi.
In 2016 he founded the international group Storytellers for Peace, composed of artists from around the world, with the aim of creating collective videos in several languages about peace and human rights.
An excerpt from his book Tramonto was published in English on Afropean.com, part of The Guardian newspaper's "Africa Network".
He is author of Italian Spoken word videos and since 2023 has a storytelling podcast with short stories about contemporary topics.

Personal life

He is married to Cecilia Moreschi, theatre actress and drama therapist. They have two sons and live in Rome, Italy.
He is a supporter of Italian football team AS_Roma.

Novels

  • Il poeta, il santo e il navigatore
  • L'intervallo
  • La truffa dei migranti
  • Elisa e il meraviglioso mondo degli oggetti
  • Carla senza di Noi
  • Lo strano vizio del professor Mann
  • Matematica delle parole
  • A morte i razzisti
  • Agata nel paese che non legge
  • Io, Blu e Rosso
  • Specchi delle nostre brame

Illustrated children books

  • Tramonto
  • Tra la terra e l'acqua
  • Roba da bambini
  • Tramonto, la favola del figlio di Buio e Luce

Collected short stories

  • Mondo giovane
  • Lo scrigno cosmopolita
  • Il dono della diversità
  • Amori diversi

Non-fiction

  • Nato da un crimine contro l'umanità. Dialogo con mio padre sulle conseguenze del colonialismo italiano
  • Cinquemila contro uno. L'impresa di Claudio Ranieri

Stage works

  • Tramonto
  • Robin Dream
  • La vera storia di Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, oratore della razza umana
  • Loving vs Virginia
  • Storie e Notizie
  • Nostro figlio è nato
  • Il dono della diversità
  • Roba da bambini
  • Questa è la paura
  • La truffa dei migranti
  • Quando
  • Curami
  • Le sette vite di Eva
  • Storie da pazzi di storie