Valerio Evangelisti

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Valerio Evangelisti (Bologna, 20 June 1952 - Bologna, 18 April 2022) was an Italian writer of science fiction, fantasy, historical novels and horror, as well as an essayist and comic-book writer. He graduated in political science at the University of Bologna in 1976 and worked as an academic and as an official of the Ministry of Finance until 1990; his early work consisted of about forty historical essays. He turned to fantastic fiction with Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore, which won the Urania prize in 1993 and was published by Mondadori in 1994. The Eymerich cycle grew to twelve novels, the last in 2018. His other works include the Nostradamus trilogy beginning with Magus (1999), an American labour trilogy (Antracite, Noi saremo tutto, One Big Union), the Mexican revolution novels Il collare di fuoco and Il collare spezzato, the pirate cycle beginning with Tortuga (2008) and the family saga Il sole dell'avvenire (2013-2016). He founded and directed the webzine Carmilla on line, received the European Science Fiction Society's Best Author award in 2002, and stood in local and European elections as a left-wing independent.

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Books

• Nicolas Eymerich, inquisitore (1994) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Le catene di Eymerich (1995) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Il corpo e il sangue di Eymerich (1996) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Il mistero dell'inquisitore Eymerich (1996) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Cherudek (1997) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Picatrix, la scala per l'inferno (1998) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Il castello di Eymerich (2001) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Mater Terribilis (2002) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• La luce di Orione (2007) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Rex tremendae maiestatis (2010) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Eymerich risorge (2017) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon
• Il fantasma di Eymerich (2018) · Nicolas Eymerich Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 12 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 1 (1 won)

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