The Starwatcher: (from the novel The Last Snowfall at the Manor Farm)

“The Starwatcher” is an extract from the Italian novel “The Last Snowfall at the Manor Farm” (L'ultima neve alla masseria) written by Rosario Pipolo, and published in Italy by Demian Edizioni in 2012. This extract is available in English for the first time for a reading on May, 20 2014 at Crypt Gallery of St. Pancras Church in London, and is opening Jelmoni Studio’s "Secret Works" Exhibition. The Starwatcher has been translated into English by the author and supervised by John Goode from University of Leeds, UK. Cover art by Camilla Aro.

Rosario Pipolo (www.rosariopipolo.com) is an Italian journalist, blogger and social media specialist. Born in Naples in 1973, he graduated cum laude in Foreign Languages from the “Federico II” University of Naples, after studying at Francis King School in London and University of Long Island in USA. Journalist contributor to daily press, Tv and web, he has interviewed actors, directors and musicians such as Ken Loach, Dustin Hoffman, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Turturro, Jack Nicholson, Nicole Kidman, Annie Lennox, Bob Geldof and Julian Lennon. In the 90s he was the president of CinemAvvenire panel at Venice International Film Festival directed by Gillo Pontecorvo and was a contributor to research works about communication and multimedia at the University of Naples. He has published an essay about Harold Pinter as screenwriter for the cinema of Joseph Losey (EdiSu, 1998) and in 2001 lectured in the presence of Pinter himself at the congress “Harold Pinter: from the theatre of menace to the cinema of ashes”, promoted by the University of Florence.
Living in Milan since 2002, he works at External Communication Department of Europ Assistance Italia (Generali Group). He has published the novel “L'ultima neve alla masseria” (Demian edizioni, 2012) and the eBook “40 storie” (Amazon self-publishing, 2014), a digital diary of his life as blogger.