ALESSANDRO GHEBREIGZIABIHER
Home page About me About my instruction About my books	About me Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher, fiction writer, blogger, storyteller and theatre director was born in Naples in 1968 and currently lives in Rome. Since 1994 he conducted many workshops and experiential laboratories on theatre, storytelling and social animation in clinical and therapeutic institutions, as drug addiction rehabilitation and mental health communities, as well as in several conferences on education subjects offered to professionals. He has a degree in Information theory and from 1994 to 2002 he attended meetings on managing and leading a group by the psychoanalyst Harold Bridger (founding member of the Tavistock Institute). His first book, Sunset (Lapis Editions, 2002), in 2003 was selected by the International Youth Library (IYL), in Munich, Germany, for the White Ravens, a mention for books from around the world that they consider to be especially noteworthy. Here are the following publications: 2006 Young world, collection of short stories (Editrice La Ginestra) 2006 The poet, the saint and the navigator, novel (Fermento Editore) 2007 The cosmopolitan trunk, collection of short stories (Editrice La Ginestra) 2008 Between earth and water, illustrated novel (Zampanera Editore) 2008 The interval, novel (Intermezzi Editore) Many of his texts have been published in various literary and cultural magazines and since 2003 you can read some of his short stories and articles on Carta magazine. In addition to Rome, he told his stories around Italy here: 2004: Literature Festival Evocamondi, El-Ghibli, Bologna. 2005: Literature Festival “Afro-Italian Voices”, Rome. 2005: Fourth Edition of the National Meeting Culture and literature of migration, Ferrara. 2005: Literature Festival “Intersection of the roads”, Bologna. 2009: Third National Seminar for Intercultural Education, Senigallia. 2010: International Symposium, "Identities, gender and in-equalities", Trieste. He is member of the international networks Red Internacional de Cuentacuentos and Professional Storyteller. In 2005 he created the Intercultural Theatre Storytelling Laboratory, becoming artistic director of the Storytelling Festival, “The gift of diversity”. Since 2009 you can read on his Blog the section Stories and News, where he writes short stories inspired by news gathered in the press, with the following motto: if media news are often false, we have to read stories to find some truth… Last update: 2010-01-24 Email	About my job About my theatre About my projects