Linda Lercari

Linda Lercari (born 8 October 1972) is an Italian multimedia actress and author who writes short stories, fiction, poetry, political fiction, noir stories, gothic novels, and historical novels. Her most important novel is actually Kaijin. L'ombra di cenere, able to give her many literary awards, the last one in order of time is the third prize for edited novel at the San Domenichino di Massa.

Life
Lercari was born in the Ligurian area to a Marshal of the Italian Navy father. She has been published by the editor HarperCollins – Italy. During 2015 Lercari won the first prize for single story at the San Domenichino di Massa.

With a great passion for Japan, she practices the martial art of Kendo at the thirty-year Kendo School created in Lucca by Maurizio Lipparelli and has been an actress in the Next Artists company of Viareggio specializing in Shakespeare's texts strictly in the original language.

She attended acting courses held by Federico Barsanti of the Piccolo Teatro della Versilia, Cathy Marchand of the Living Theater, and Mark Roberts of the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York.

Lercari is part of the TOF - Testo Originale a Fronte - a group of artists from Versilia.

Selected works
Novels: Kaijin. L'ombra di cenere (2018), Sette_(novel) (2019) and Doveva essere un romanzo d'amore (2019).

Poetry: Poesie d`Osservazione, Poesie Crudeli and Il Vecchio e il Nuovo, the latter translated into japanese language with the title イル ヴェッキオ エ イル ヌオーヴォ. His poem L'amante Bianca is part of the anthology of the Luzi Foundation, 2015 edition.