Guido Mina di Sospiro
| Guido Mina di Sospiro | |
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| Born | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Occupation | Novelist and non-fiction writer |
| Alma mater |
University of Pavia University of Southern California |
| Period | 2000–present |
| Genre | Thriller, narrative nonfiction, memoirs |
| Notable works | The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong |
| Website | |
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Guido Mina di Sospiro is an award-winning[1] fiction and non-fiction writer.
Early Life and Education
Guido Mina di Sosprio born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an ancient Italian family,.[2] He was raised in Milan, Italy. Currently, he is living in the United States.
He was educated at the University of Pavia, and later at the USC School of Cinema-Television, now known as USC School of Cinematic Arts, at The University of Southern California.
Writing career
The Story of Yew
Mina di Sospiro's novel The Story of Yew, the memoirs of a two-thousand-year-old female yew tree,[3][4][5] inspired by the yew that grows in the cloister of Muckross Abbey, near Killarney, in Ireland. Published in the UK to much acclaim, botanist and dendrologist Alan Mitchell opined that "As a blend of science and imaginative fiction, this is a remarkable book, far removed from 'science-fiction' as normally understood. It deals with the real world in an inventive way without putting a foot wrong.[6]
The book has been translated into many languages, as has From the River,[7] the memoirs of a mighty river. The latter, too, has met with critical acclaim.[8][9]
The Forbidden Book
Mina di Sospiro has co-authored The Forbidden Book[10][11][12] with Joscelyn Godwin, the noted scholar of western esoteric tradition. The novel deals with the incendiary reality of radical Islamic terrorism, with an attack first on Italian and then on Spanish soil, while trying to analyze, and then put to use by harnessing its alleged powers, a real book of 1603, written by Cesare Della Riviera, entitled Il Mondo magico de gli heroi (The Magical World of the Heroes). It is a very mysterious treatise of alchemy that supposedly teaches how to attain the Tree of Life and make a man into a god. In the novel, the Riviera family possesses a secret, annotated edition that gives specific instructions on magical techniques and sexual alchemy.
The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong
On his own, the author has recently publishedThe Metaphysics of Ping-Pong, of which Publishers Weekly states that it "can constitute a perfect introduction to the vast history of humankind's quest for philosophical clarity." [13][14][15][16] He keeps a blog on the web-magazine Reality Sandwich [17] and on the alternative views website Disinformation Company.[18]
Translations
His books have been translated into Bulgarian, Danish, Greek, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Turkish.
References
- ↑ Literary Prize "FiordiBarocco"
- ↑ "Il fiume"
- ↑ "A Tale Told by a Tree"
- ↑ "He Only Has Eyes For Yews"
- ↑ "The Story of Yew"
- ↑ "Endorsements"
- ↑ "Da Cremona a Miami Per raccontare il Po sono diventato fiume"
- ↑ "And That’S The Wonder, The Wonder Of Yew"
- ↑ "Il romanzo dell'uomo che scorre sul Po"
- ↑ "The Forbidden Book: Sex, Death, Love, Religion, Politics, Magic, and all that"
- ↑ "An Interview with Guido Mina di Sospiro"
- ↑ "Review by Jay Kinney"
- ↑ "The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong: Review from The Times"
- ↑ "The Metaphysics of Ping Pong - A Review"
- ↑ "Staff Pick: The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong"
- ↑ "Starred Review: The Metaphysics of Ping Pong: Table Tennis as a Journey of Self-Discovery"
- ↑ Blog on Reality Sandwich
- ↑ Blog on Disinformation