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Giorgio Scerbanenco

Born

in Kyiv, Ukraine

July 28, 1911

Died

October 27, 1969

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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Vladimir Giorgio Šerbanenko was an Italian journalist and writer of Ukranian origin.

He was born in Kiev, in what was then the Russian Empire, on 28 July 1911. At an early age, his family immigrated to Rome (Scerbanenco's father was Ukrainian, his mother was Italian), and then he moved to Milan when he was 18 years old.

He found work as a freelance writer for many Italian magazines, chief among them Anna Bella before becoming a novelist. His first fiction books were detective novels set in USA and clearly inspired by the works of Edgar Wallace and S.S. Van Dine signed with an English-sounding pen name. While Scerbanenco wrote in several genres, he is famous in Italy for his crime and detective novels, many of which have been dramatized in Ita ...more

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	Venere privata by Giorgio Scerbanenco, Luca Doninelli (Contributor) 3.81 avg rating — 1,808 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I milanesi ammazzano al sabato (Duca Lamberti, #4) 3.92 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 1969 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traditori di tutti (Duca Lamberti, #2) by Giorgio Scerbanenco, Carlo Oliva (Contributor) 3.86 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 1966 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I ragazzi del massacro (Duca Lamberti, #3) 3.88 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 1968 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Milano Calibro 9 3.93 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La sabbia non ricorda 3.68 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1961 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il Centodelitti by Giorgio Scerbanenco, Nunzia Monanni (Foreword) 4.06 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sei giorni di preavviso by Giorgio Scerbanenco, Roberto Pirani (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Al mare con la ragazza by Giorgio Scerbanenco, Piero Colaprico (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La ragazza dell'addio 4.06 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Giorgio Scerbanenco (?)

“Avevo già passato i trent'anni e avrei dovuto imparare qualche cosa da quello che mi era successo. Ma solo tardi imparai che non s'impara quasi mai niente. Noi rimaniamo sempre gli stessi. Le esperienze della vita, gli insegnamenti delle persone più sagge, ci impolverano un poco, come quando camminiamo per una vecchia strada di campagna, ma basta soffiare su quel po' di polvere perché noi ritorniamo tali e quali come eravamo prima di ogni insegnamento. Così continuai a commettere gli stessi errori. Per fortuna, lavorando quattordici, sedici ore al giorno, scrivendo quattro, cinque romanzi e centinaia di racconti all'anno, avevo poco tempo per commettere errori. Ma ne commettevo sempre.
[dalla Prefazione: Io, Vladimir Scerbanenco]”
― Giorgio Scerbanenco, La Milano nera

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“Probabilmente qualche altro inquilino si era accorto di quell'acqua che scorreva fuori da quella porta, ma si era ben guardato dall'avvisare qualcuno, il portiere: la civiltà di massa ha questo pregio, che ciascuno può annegare liberamente senza che gli altri gli diano fastidio nel tentativo di salvarlo. È in fondo una forma di delicatezza e di rispetto dell'opinione altrui di morire da sé.”
― Giorgio Scerbanenco, I milanesi ammazzano al sabato

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