The world´s most interesting writer :: 2026
Years ago I met Italians who - for a while - let me forget about my previous opinion about Italians. I met them in the context of a slow food store right where I live, and all of them were artists. One was named Angelo and he would bring up the wildest topics (as someone with a master degree of literature he had read a lot of books, and he had his very own opinion). And I knew, he was right !
For instance I asked him who his favorite writer (out of some thousand) was, and he said: Life !
You can’t beat this. That was about 8 years ago, and I didn’t discuss any of these things with anyone after, because I knew people were not willing to discuss anything.
Until I came to Mykonos this year in spring, and spent some days at Angela ́s place, the house of an almost 90 years old american painter. For some reason, maybe because of her story (she told me about) I started discussing all these things with her. She totally liked them! And she’d add her stories!
Only later, back in Vienna, I found out that it was a funny thing - Angelo and Angela! I only met one Angelo and one Angela, he a gen x Italian living in Vienna and she an almost 90 years old american artist from Chicago, Illinois, who has been living on the greek island of Mykonos since hippie times - and both had stayed for love, for the book written by life !
It’s good to meet people with interesting biographies, they remind us of how creative life is. And how brave one can be :: 26
sea view from angela´s place on mykonos island (c) may 2026