Italian writer Eugenio Barisoni was an avid fisherman, hunter and nature lover, whose novels frequently featured these issues. He became a writer at 46 with a successful book Hunter is Born. Having become a successful author and writer of prestigious magazine articles, Barisoni obtained the St. Vincent Prize a few years before his death in San Remo in 1951. In Italy he was called the “Hemingway of Ticino”. Cacciatore si Nasce contains a series of hunting stories and first appeared in Milano in 1932. It has been reissued ever since.