Something looking like
a little biography of RQ
In 1962 Roberto Quaglia came into this
world not being able to return to the other. So he decided to
settle down here. In the beginning he grew up not forgetting to
gain the correct stature and then lose his surplus quantity of
hair. But before all this he managed to occupy his space-time in
"varied and various" ways.
First he amused himself with
photography and the end-product of his researches was published,
unexpectedly, in major European magazines and rashly shown in
various exhibitions. Then, tired of giving excessive
significance to a few square centimetres of emulsion-developed
paper, he swore allegiance to the theatre and the organization
of cultural events, fields in which he has distinguished himself
in the city.
One fine day, giving in to an unexpected
impulse, he created a series of comic-strips called "The Planet
of the Computers", subsequently published in the Italian
magazines "Bit" and "Microcomputer".
But it was only when he
suddenly noticed he was in reality a writer that he finally
noticed he was in reality a writer.
From then onwards, as
every writer, he has above all written, neglecting - in his most
obsessive moments - to live, but managing to survive all the
same.
Roberto Quaglia is, today, one of the most promising of the
Italian science fiction writers. Without doubt he's the most
irreverent and iconoclastic. He has written two novels, a
collection of stories, a television serial and various science
fiction plays. He collaborates as well with noted Italian
magazines as a humorous writer.
His texts are powerful in
their disrupting, desecrating vein and their cynical modern
black humour, both of which give a distinctive mark to a good
part of his writings. Surprisingly for the author, they have
become a cult in various literary circles.
He has written among other things a lot of things.
Roberto Quaglia is one
of the most interesting Italian writers. He writes SF and
surrealistic fiction. Actually, he is Counsellor in the city of
Genova, Italy.
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