Born in ‘73, Michele Dalai is an author, television writer and television and radio presenter.

He has published the novels Le più strepitose cadute della mia vita [The Hardest Falls of My Life] (2011), La lentezza della luce [The Slowness of Light] (2017) and the pamphlet Contro il Tiqui Taca [Against Tiqui Taca] (2013) for Mondadori, and the novel Onora il babbuino [Honor the Babboon] (2015) for Feltrinelli.

He has written regular columns for Repubblica and SportWeek, and written for La Stampa, l’Unità, the Italian edition of GQ, Undici and Buckets.
He has worked as a television writer on programmes such as “Il grande cocomero” on Rai 2, and as a pundit on sports talk shows “Tiki Taka – Il calcio è il nostro gioco” on Italia 1 and “Il processo del lunedì” on Rai 3, as well as presenting sports documentaries such as “Football Hooligans” on DMAX, “Due di Uno” on Fox Sports and “Il vecchio e il Tour” on Rai 2 (which was later turned into a theatre show).
Dalai is also a radio presenter: in particular, from 2015 to 2018 he presented the programme “Ettore” on Rai Radio 2 and created and narrated the podcast “FRED” for Audible.

In 2018, together with Roberto Burioni, he founded the medical and scientific blog “Medical Facts”.