Donato Carrisi

Donato Carrisi’s international bestselling novels are published in Italy by Longanesi. His first novel Il suggeritore (The Whisperer) was published in 2009 and won several major prizes including Italy’s prestigious Bancarella prize. Donato also won the Prix Polar and Prix Livre de Poche in France. He is published in the UK by Little Brown and his novels have been translated into over thirty languages and sold millions of copies.

His novel La ragazza nella nebbia (The Girl in the Fog) was turned into a major international film, starring Toni Servillo and Jean Reno and it won the David di Donatello Prize for Best Debut Director 2018. L’uomo del labirinto (Into the Labyrinth), starring Toni Servillo and Dustin Hoffman was released in October 2019. He also directed the film from his standalone thriller Io sono l’abisso (I Am the Abyss), released in 2022.

The books in his Pietro Gerber series, La casa delle voci (The House of Voices), La casa senza ricordi (The House without Memories) and La casa delle luci (The House of Lights) all went straight to no.1 in the Italian charts. His latest thriller, L’educazione delle farfalle (The education of butterflies), published in 2023, has been on top of Italian charts for 22 weeks in a row.

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