Marco Franzoso
Marco Franzoso was born in 1965 and is hailed as one of Italy’s most important contemporary authors. Two of his novels, Tu non sai cos’è l’amore (winner of the Castiglioncello Prize) and Westwood dee-jay, have been adapted for theatre. Il bambino indaco, published by Einaudi in 2012, was turned into the movie Hungry Hearts, directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Alba Rohrwacher and Adam Driver, both of whom received the Coppa Volpi for best performance at the Venice Film Festival in 2014. L’innocente was published by Mondadori in 2018, and won the Mondello Prize. Le parole lo sanno was published by Mondadori in March 2020. Il grande libro della scrittura, Franzoso’s 700 pages manual on the art of creative writing, was published by Il Saggiatore in November 2020. His latest novel, La Lezione, was published by Mondadori in April 2022 and has been turned into a movie produced by Pico Media and starring Matilda De Angelis and Stefano Accorsi. Marco also coauthored Gino Cecchettin’s book Cara Giulia, which was n.1 in Italy.
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