Paolo Alberto Brera (16 September 1949 – 21 February 2019) was an Italian economist, academic, journalist, multilingual translator and novelist.[1]
Biography
Brera was born in
Milan, the third son of journalist and writer
Gianni Brera and teacher Rina Gramegna. In 1976, he married Clelia Bertello and later on Rosetta Griglié. With Griglié, he has two daughters, Jalée (born 1985) and Lavinia Lys (born 1987). Since 2008, Brera divided his time between
Nice, France and
Milan.[citation needed]
Brera earned his degree in Political Economy from Milan's
Bocconi University,[2] where later on he was Assistant Professor of Economic History (1974–78). In 1977 he spent a few months at the
Poznań University of Economics in
Poland as a visiting scholar. From 1978–81 he worked at the Italian subsidiary of the French oil company
Total, pursuing his research programme as a side occupation. Until 1985 he was a member of the Italian Socialist Party's (PSI) Economic Commission. [citation needed]
Brera researched the
planned economies of the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe,[3] publishing some fifty works in specialized journals.[4] Brera was also a member of the Association Internationale des Économistes de Langue Française (International Association of French-Language Economists), and submitted papers on Eastern Europe at the NATO Headquarters in Bruxelles and in Rome.[citation needed]
Beginning in 2000, he published science fiction,[8] and detective novels and stories,[9] as well as translations into Italian from English, French,[10] Russian,[11] Polish[12] and Spanish[13] works.
He died in Milan on 21 February 2019, at age of 69 after a
heart attack. He had released his new novel, Il futuro degli altri, the previous day.[14]
^See biographical introduction to Paolo BRERA, "Selbstverwaltung und ökonomische Entwicklung. Das jugoslawische Wachstumsmodell in den 70er Jahren und seine Krise in den 80er Jahren", Die Neue Gesellschaft, N. 3, March 1983, 30. Jahrgang, Bonn.
^Don Giovanni. Un progetto di Paolo Brera, with works by
Balzac,
Pushkin,
Zorrilla and
Gianni Brera, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera, Milan, Alacrán (2007).
^I.S.
Turgenev, Primo amore, Periplo, Lecco, 1995, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera.
^Henryk Sienkiewicz, Bartek il Trionfatore, trad. e prefazione di Paolo Brera, Milan, La Vita Felice, 1995, translated and with an introduction by Brera.
^Don Giovanni. Un progetto di Paolo Brera, with works by
Balzac,
Zorrilla and
Gianni Brera, translated and with an introduction by Paolo Brera, Milan, Alacrán (2007).