Gianni Minà

Gianni Minà (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni miˈna]; 17 May 1938 – 27 March 2023) was an Italian journalist, writer, magazine editor, and television host. He collaborated with both Italian and International newspapers and magazines; produced hundreds of reports for RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana); conceived and hosted television programs, as well as produced successful documentary films on the lives of Che Guevara, Muhammad Ali, Fidel Castro, Rigoberta Menchú, Silvia Baraldini, Subcomandante Marcos and Diego Maradona.

Minà was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Latinoamerica e tutti i sud del mondo ("Latin America and All the Souths in the World") as well as the editor of the book series Continente desaparecido ("The Disappeared Continent") published by Sperling & Kupfer, a group of publications focuses on the Latin American world and its authors. Minà himself published many books on Latin America.

In 2003, Minà was elected to the assembly of the Società Italiana Autori ed Editori (the Italian Authors and Publishers Association) and was a member of the committee that designs and produces Vivaverdi, the journal of Italian authors. In 2007, Minà received the Kamera Prize at the Berlin Film Festival for his lifetime's work.

Biography

Born in Turin, Minà began his career as a journalist in 1959 with the sports newspaper Tuttosport, of which he was later editor-in-chief (1996-1998). In 1960 he began working with RAI (the Italian State Broadcasting Corporation) as a sports correspondent for the Olympic Games in Rome. In 1965, after working with the sports magazine Sprint, Minà made documentaries for a variety of RAI's television programs including Tv7, AZ, TG1 and TG2, Dribbling, Odeon and Gulliver.