“Mauro Corona is a lean and austere writer, yet simultaneously magical in the essentiality with which he narrates fairy tales alongside abrupt, basic reality. His stories possess the authority of  fairy tales, in which the marvellous asserts itself with absolute simplicity, with the clarity of the everyday. Within them lies communion with Nature, with the hidden and incessant flow of life, and an infinite, fearless solitude.”
– Claudio Magris in the introduction to Mauro Corona’s book “Il volo della martora” (The Flight of the Pine Marten).

In the stories written by Mauro Corona, the harshness of life in ancient Erto collides with the beauty of untouched Nature. In his books, the reader immerses themselves in worlds populated by characters whom Mauro Corona, like a Caravaggio of literature, paints with words, in an endless kaleidoscope of adventures, conflicts, failures, triumphs, deaths, and rebirths. An oppressive restlessness seems to await at every corner, a poignant sensation against which humans never tire of fighting. This is the strength of all the books of the sculptor-writer from Erto. From his den, he realises that human beings are masters of their destiny, precisely because they can transform the world. It is up to them to choose whether to self-destruct or to ensure a better future for the generations of the years to come.

The world that emerges from his writings, full of naturalness and poetry but also marked by harshness, sacrifice, and misfortune, immediately captivates hundreds of thousands of readers. In 2003, his first book published by Mondadori Editore: “Nel legno e nella pietra” (In Wood and Stone) was released. The work maintains the same formula as its predecessors, with new and unpublished stories linked by a single narrative voice. Thus begins the collaboration with the Milanese publishing house that will release many new books by the author in the following years, ranging from essays to novels, to fairy tales for children.

The peculiarity of his books can be found in plots developed around the territories of an archaic mountain, with mystical traits, populated by characters described through direct, descriptive language, sometimes even invented and specifically personalised to make the story more suggestive and fascinating.

“Mauro Corona is a loyal man, he climbs mountains in a clean style, carves wood following the grain and the moon, writes books and stories of real and therefore rare people.” – Erri De Luca.