"Tina Merlin was not an illustrated magazine writer, nor did she have godfathers who counted, nor academic titles". Thus writer Mario Rigoni Stern described her, because her friends were those who had fought for Resistance and her writings were published uniquely owing to her stubbornness. And her most important book's path confirms this.Despite facts tragically confirming all her forecasts and her accusations, Tina Merlin has roamed for twenty years, from publisher to publisher, to be able to publish, just in '83, "Sulla pelle viva" (On raw flesh). How to build a catastrophe.
"The Vajont case", the most convincing evidence ever written on this tragedy, bringing to light the mysteries that had concealed, for years, truth on the Vajont catastrophe. Almost twenty years from its publishing Verona's Cierre Edizioni brings into bookstores a reprint of the volume with introductions by Giampaolo Pansa and Marco Paolini.
Tina Merlin was one of the bravest figures of Italian journalism. During the liberation war she was a partisan despatch rider in the "7° Alpini" brigade, which operated in the Belluno province. From 1951 to '57 she was the local correspondent for l'Unità and in those years she started to follow the Vajont events continuing her work even after the tragedy of the 9th October '63.
For her accusation writings on the dangers the construction of the dam would bring about Merlin was tried and then cleared by the Milan court for "circulation of news in order to perturb public order ".
Tina Merlin died at 65 in December 1991, after a year of illness. To preserve the journalists' work and memory, for a few years, in Belluno the Tina Merlin Association has been continuing her work in search for truth. B.S.
Associazione Culturale Tina Merlin, Via Montalban 1. 32100 Belluno
Tel. 0437-26805
E-mail
October.2001
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