Marcello Di Cintio
writer, wrestler
Why you should listen to him: Acclaimed author Marcello Di Cintio finds it fascinating that in a high-tech and borderless world, societies still erect crude barriers out of wire, stone and steel. In the Shadow of the Wall is a book to be published in 2012 about walls, fences and other hard barriers – and the people who live in their shadows. His work probes the sort of societies walls create and what they tell us about the forces that build them.
Di Cintio has microbiology and English degrees from the University of Calgary, where he was a member of the varsity wrestling team. Di Cintio taught biology in a Ghana and travelled through western and northern Africa, which inspired his first book, Harmattan: Wind Across West Africa. He won the Henry Kriesel Award for Best First Book.
As the millennium turned, he left his home in Calgary once again and journeyed to Israel and Egypt before returning to Calgary to write. Iran was Di Cintio's next destination in the summer of 2003 where he sought to discover how Iranians reconcile creativity with combat by studying Persian poets and traditional wrestlers in the travel memoir Poets and Pahlevans: A Journey Into the Heart of Iran, another award winner.
Learn more about Marcello Di Cintio and In the Shadow of the Wall @ www.marcellodicintio.com
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