Carlo Pizzati has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book. He writes about culture and politics for the Italian national newspaper La Stampa and teaches post-graduate level communication theory courses in different continents. His works appear in Italian, English and Spanish. Born in Switzerland, he grew up near the Dolomites mountains north of Venice, Italy, then in Florida, Washington D.C. and New York City where, in 1987, he started to work as a foreign correspondent, which brought him to Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Madrid and since 2010 across Asia. He lives part of the year near a fishermen village in Tamil Nadu.
At the Bangalore Literature Festival Pizzati gives a reading titled My Miserable Life In Mysore: Readings from Technoshamans and A History of Objects.
The festivalis free and open to the public.