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September 16, 2021 Born in Naples in 1937, Tullio Pironti has had a central role in culture and not only in the Neapolitan one. Son of generations of booksellers, he made his debut in 1972, with the book-reportage '' The long night of the Fedayn '' by the journalist Domenico Carratelli, in the aftermath of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. But his greatest merit was having made the Italian public discover some giants of North American literature: Don De Lillo, Bret Easton Ellis, Raymond Carver, but also the Egyptian Nobel laureate Nagib Mahfuz. "The rights of Easton Ellis I won them in a telephone auction. The player's unconsciousness prevailed" - he told in an interview. And Fernanda Pivano gave him her preface to the book. Among the most successful works, also 'Il camorrista ', by journalist Joe Marrazzo, about Raffaele Cutolo, from which a successful film was made.