(9 May 2017) The events of the "Italian Literature Spring" are held in Berlin - promoted by the Italian Institute of Culture- are a journey towards the discovery of 10 authors. The conference - which brings to Berlin some of the most esteemed contemporary writers from Italy or who have ties with the country - will close on June 12 with the presentation of Gabriella Caramore and Maurizio Ciampa latest book, "La Vita non è male" (Life is not bad) (Salani Publisher, 2016), moderated by Luigi Reitani. The next appointment, scheduled for May 15, is for the presentation of Veit Heinichen's book "Die Zeitungsfrau" published by Piper Verlag in 2016 - a new chapter in the life of Commissario Laurenti published in Italian with the title "La giornalaia" (The Newspaper vendor) (editions and / or). Veit Heinichen is the writer who created Proteo Laurenti, the police officer investigating crime in the North-East seaside town of Trieste. His noir novels illustrate the extraordinary worlds where the Mediterranean and Middle Europe meet and where the mental, political, historical, and geographic confines are the focal point both for Laurenti and the author. Vein Heinichen's novels draw the map of a world that depicts Europe as a home both in the past and present. (Red)

VEIT HEINICHEN

Veit Heinichen was born in 1957 in the southwest of Germany, near the border with France and Switzerland - in that corner of Europe where the great river Danube flows through the old continent. After studying economics in Stuttgart and working at the General Directorate of Daimler-Benz AG, he decided to leave bodywork production to focus on writing. He first worked first as a bookstore salesman and then worked in several independent European publishing houses such as Ammann Verlag in Zurich and The S. Fischer Verlag of Frankfurt. In 1994 he co-founded Berlin Verlag (awarded several times as publishing house of the year) and which he directed until 1999. His first experience in Trieste, which would later become his home, dates back to 1980. His noir novels are set in the windy city of Trieste and feature Proteo Laurenti as the protagonist - originally from Salerno but Triestan by adoption, like Heinichen. Veit Heinichen's novels are best-sellers and have been translated into nine languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Slovenian, Greek, Polish, Czech, and Norwegian). In Italy his novels are published by the editorial publishing house Edizioni e/o.