Giacomo Sartori

Sartori published Baco, a speculative fiction novel about family and artificial intelligence, in 2019. Baco was well-received and was a finalist for the 2020 Premio Procida Award. Sartori described the work as emblematic of the contrast between "a cynical and inhuman capitalism and those who remain anchored to the values of brotherhood".

In 2016, Sartori published Sono Dio, a novel from the perspective of the omnipotent and omniscent God. It was translated to English by Randall and published as I Am God in 2019.

In 2011, he published the short story collection Autismi, a collection of absurdist shorts influenced by psychoanalytic theory. It was awarded the Frontier Grenzen, the pre-eminent literary prize of the Alps.

In 2005, Sartori published the autofictional The Anatomy of the Battle, based on his relationship with his father and their political conflicts. He described the process of writing it as a "true and proper revelation", coming to terms with aspects of his psyche and lifestyle that he had previously denied. The work was praised in the Italian literary media for its depth and focus. It was partially translated by Frederika Randall before her death, and he hoped to publish it in the United States.

Sartori began writing in the 1990s and published his first novel, Tritolo, in 1999. His other early works include Sacrificio (2008), Cielo nero (2008), and Rogo (2015).

Giacomo Sartori (born 1958) is an Italian author and agronomist. His day job as a soil scientist has attracted attention for its atypicality and influence on his work. Sartori, who began writing in his thirties, has since published seven novels and four collections of short stories. He is also an editor and columnist of the online literary magazine Nazione Indiana [it]. I Am God, his first novel to be published in English, was translated in 2019 by Frederika Randall and received positive reviews.

Sartori was born in Trento, Italy, in 1958. The Alpine region near the Austrian border he grew up in inspired many of his early works. His father was a supporter of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini, which shaped the younger Sartori's worldview indelibly; his conscious attempts to distance himself from his father inspired much of his psyche and writing. He graduated from the University of Florence in 1983 with a degree in agricultural science.