L'Italie, jardin des Arts ? L'Italie, rêve des Français ? L'Italie, paradis de la bonne humeur ? Ou plutôt : Un pays sans mémoire ? Un pays sans institutions ? Un pays sans vision politique ?
Né â Rome, Corrado Augias vit entre Rome et Paris, sa ville d'élection. Il a été envoyé spécial de l'hebdomadaire L'Espresso et du quotidien La Repubblica, pour lequel il dirige le Courrier des lecteurs depuis plusieurs années. Ses livres ont connu un succès considérable en Italie et ont été traduits dans de nombreux pays.
Corrado Augias (Roma, 1935) è un giornalista, scrittore, conduttore televisivo, autore televisivo, drammaturgo ed ex politico italiano.
Corrado Augias is an Italian journalist, writer and TV host. He was also a member of the European Parliament in 1994–1999 for the Democratic Party of the Left. Augias issued a series of crime novels set in the early 20th century and others. His other works include several essays about peculiar features of the world's most important cities: I segreti di Rome, Paris, New York and London. In 2006, in collaboration with scholar Mauro Pesce, he published a work dealing with the gospel's description of the life of Jesus, Inchiesta su Gesù, which became a bestseller in Italy. He is an atheist.