Featured Interview With Paolo G. Grossi
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in Milan. I moved to London in my twenties and never went back.
Beside writing and reading I love Opera and the Arts in general. Every time I find myself in NYC I must pit stop at the Met or the Frick Collection.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I’ve always had a passion for writing but my career took me somewhere else. During lockdown I started writing The Tiergarten Tales to occupy the time and here we are, a year later, book published and selling well.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Mary Renault, Madeleine Miller, Stephen Fry, Edmund White and Patrick Gale. For history the best remains Lady Antonia Fraser. Her biography of Elizabeth I is rather the perfect history book.
The main inspiration for me is Mary Renault.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The Tiergarten Tales is a collection of ten stories set in Berlin in various moments of history. It’s boys and men, their love stories but also troubles and pain as most stories are either before or after big historical upheavals.
LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction is a niche genre but there are quite a few aficionados and the feedback has been largely positive.
I am soon to publish my second book. It will be a full novel set in fifteenth century Italy and modern Florence.
It’s a tale about talent, the envy and resentment it can cause among less gifted but equally ambitious people.
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