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Gioacchino Criaco (born 3 March 1965, Africo) is an Italian writer.^[1]

Gioacchino Criaco was born in Africo, Calabria, to a family of shepherds. He went to a high school in Locri and studied laws in Bologna. He worked as a lawyer in Milan until 2008, when his literary career took off.^[2]

His brother, Pietro Criaco is a member of the 'Ndrangheta and he lost his father in a vendetta in 1993.^[3]

The movie director Francesco Munzi adapted his debut novel Anime nere in 2014: Black Souls.^[4]

• Anime nere, 2008
• Zefira, 2009
• American Taste, 2011
• Perduta gente, 2012
• Il Saltozoppo, 2015
• L'agenda ritrovata, 2017
• La memoria del lupo, 2017
• La maligredi, 2018

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