Matteo Strukul was born in Padua in 1973 and lives between Padua, Milan and Berlin. He is a novelist and comic strip writer. In 2019 he published the graphic novel Vlad - Le lame del cuore with Feltrinelli Comics. He has written many novels, translated into over twenty countries, including Giacomo Casanova (Mondadori) and the four-part series I Medici - Una famiglia al potere (Newton Compton), which won the Premio Bancarella 2017 and has sold over 500,000 copies in Italy and abroad, Paolo e Francesca (Salani Editore), optioned by an Italian production house, La cripta di Venezia and I sette corvi (both with Newton Compton). He published with Newton Compton La congiura delle vipere in 2025, followed by La vendetta dei leoni di Venezia in 2026. Creator and founder of the literary movement Sugarpulp and artistic director of the festival of the same name, Matteo writes for various newspapers, including “Il Venerdì” by “la Repubblica”.