What is Vittorio Catani?
[[File:Vittorio Catani.jpg|thumb|right|Vittorio Catani during the 2010 convention Deepcon 11 / Italcon 36]] '''Vittorio Catani''' (17 July 1940 – 23 November 2020) was an Italian [[science fiction]] writer. He was born in [[Lecce]] and worked in [[Bari]], Italy. He started publishing essays and fiction in 1962. His first novel, ''Gli universi di Moras'', won the ''[[Urania (magazine)|Urania]]'' in 1990. Some of his works were published for ''[[La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno]]''. His second science fiction novel, ''Il Quinto Principio'', was published in December 2009 by ''Urania''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Distopie, viaggi spaziali, allucinazioni. Fantascienza italiana contemporanea|last=Iannuzzi|first=Giulia|publisher=Mimesis|year=2015|isbn=9788857527659|location=Milan, Italy|pages=269–326}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Iannuzzi|first=Giulia|date=Fall 2014|title=Italian Science Fiction 101|url=https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/310.pdf|journal=SFRA Review|pages=28, 29, 32|doi=|pmid=|access-date=7 June 2016|archive-date=21 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921185945/https://sfra.wildapricot.org/resources/sfra-review/310.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Catani died in Bari on 23 November 2020, at the age of 80.<ref>[https://www.corrierenazionale.net/2020/11/25/vittorio-catani-non-ce-piu-tra-i-primi-a-scrivere-in-italia-di-fantascienza/ Vittorio Catani non c’è più. Tra i primi a scrivere in Italia di Fantascienza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127002045/https://www.corrierenazionale.net/2020/11/25/vittorio-catani-non-ce-piu-tra-i-primi-a-scrivere-in-italia-di-fantascienza/ |date=2021-01-27 }} {{in lang|it}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Catani, Vittorio}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Italian writers]] [[Category:People from Lecce]] [[Category:Italian novelists]] [[Category:21st-century Italian writers]] {{bio-stub}}