Piero Verni

Piero Verni, journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker lives between Brittany and Italy. For many years he has dedicated most of his work to the knowledge of Tibetan civilisation and Indo-Himalayan cultures to which he has devoted numerous reportages, books and documentaries. He has collaborated and still collaborates with several prestigious travel and geography magazines with Swiss Radio Television and Rai TV. For the Sperling&Kupfer publishing house, he directed the ‘Tibet’ series for almost a decade. Authorised biographer of the Dalai Lama, he has recently published the new, updated and expanded version of the biography of this great ethical and spiritual figure (Il Sorriso e la Saggezza-Dalai Lama, biografia autorizzato) and has just finished editing the documentary Tulku, le incarnazioni mistiche del Tibet.

His books include: L’Ultimo Tibet: viaggio nel Mustang, second updated edition, T.E.A., Milan 1998; Il Tibet nel cuore, Sperling&Kupfer, Milan 1999; Le Terre del Buddha, Touring Club Milan 2001; Tibet, White Star edizioni, second edition Vercelli 2007; Lung ta-Universi tibetani (in collaboration with Giampietro Mattolin), Venice 2012; Tulku: le incarnazioni mistiche del Tibet (in collaboration with Giampietro Mattolin), second edition, Venice 2018.

Among the documentaries: Tibet My Country (in collaboration with Karma Chukey) Brussels 1996, Far from Tibet (in collaboration with Karma Chukey), 1997, Journey to the Sundarbans, Rai 2000, In Fuga dal Tibet (in collaboration with Karma Chukey), Bruce Chatwin Prize 2001, Indian National Parks, La 7, 2001, On the March Towards Tibet (in collaboration with Karma Chukey), Premium Palladium of the Flower Film Festival 2010; Cham, Tibet’s ritual dances, Venice 2017.

Piero Verni was also one of the founders of the Italy-Tibet Association, of which he was President for the first 14 years. He is currently President of the Association ‘The Heritage of Tibet-L’Eredità del Tibet’.