Biography

In his forty-year long career as a journalist, Lucio Lami has worked for nearly all the greatest post-war publishers: Gianni Mazzocchi, Edilio Rusconi, Arnoldo Mondadori and Angelo Rizzoli.

In 1974, when Il Giornale newspaper was founded, he became part of the editorial staff directed by Indro Montanelli and for twenty years he travelled all over the world as war correspondent and contributed to the cultural column.

For years, his focus has been the relationships between politics and culture. He has founded and has been the editor of the Commentari magazine, calling great international men of thought, including Popper and J.F. Revel, to work as contributors. He has been the editor of L'Indipendente newspaper.

As a journalist, Lucio Lami has been awarded the Premio Max David (1980) and the Premio Hemingway (1986), reserved for special correspondents.

As a writer, he has won the Premio Estense (1981) and the Premio Sacharov (1986)award for an essay on soviet dissent entitled Il grido delle formiche (Rusconi).
His works as an essayist include: La scuola del plagio (Armando); Dai confini dell'Impero (Sugarco); Morire per Kabul ( Bompiani); Giorni di Guerra (Mondadori); Cuba libre era solo un cocktail (Spirali); Giornalismo all’italiana (Ares); Perché mezza Italia non vota più (Spirali); Il paradiso violato (Ares), Visti e raccontati (Ares, 2003).
History books by Lucio Lami include: Isbuscenskij, l'ultima carica (Mursia); La Signora di Verrua (Rizzoli); Garibaldi e Anita corsari (Mondadori); Umberto II, ultimo re d’Italia.
Lucio Lami is also the author of a novel entitled La donna dell'orso (Camunia) (1996).
His works have been translated in France, Greece, Spain, and Latin America.

Lucio Lami has been a professor in journalism at the Milan Università Cattolica and was the honorary president of the Italian PEN Club.

He died March 31, 2013