Who

• Senior editor della narrativa italiana per le Edizioni Mondadori.

• Author of four novels (Senza coda, Il buio addosso, Bianco and The Sense of an Elephant).
• Translated in various countries, including Germany, France, USA.
• Awarded many important prizes, among which the Premio Campiello Opera Prima, the Premio Tondelli and the Premio Bergamo.
• Contributor for the cultural pages of the Corriere della Sera.

•  Professor and researcher of French literature at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome.
•  Writer and contributor to some of the most important Italian newspapers including Corriere della Sera and L’Espresso.
•  Author of numerous publications, both academic and narrative, including Proust antiebreo, Con le peggiori intenzioni (The Worst Intensions, Europa Editions), and Persecuzione (Persecution, Europa Editions).
•  Winner of the award Campiello opera prima, of the Premio Strega and of the Prix du méillieur livre étranger.

•  Member of the photo agency VII.
•  Collaborator for many of the most important international newspapers including Le Monde, The New York Times and The New Yorker.
•  Winner of some of the most important international photography prizes, including four times the World Press Photo in various categories and the Moving Wall of the Soros Foundation.
•  Winner of the W.E. Smith Fellowship Grant and of the Getty Grant for editorial photography.
•  Author of the books Pornoland e Blanco, with texts by Martin Amis and Josè Saramago.

•  Author of five books including novels and short stories, amongst them Fists, The Break, and Enchantment, all published in England by Pushkin Press.
•  Finalist for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
•  Winner of several prizes including Premio Chiara, Premio Campiello Europa and Premio Letterario Nazionale Pisa.
•  Collaborator for Vanity Fair and for Scuola Holden, the most important storytelling school in Italy.

• Author of three novels published by Fandango and Mondadori, published in England by Pushkin Press.
• Awarded, among others, Premio Bagutta Opera Prima and Premio Fiesole.
• The Parrots, his second novel, was listed by the Financial Times in the 2013 Best books of the year.
• Screenplayer for several feature and short films, he was awarded the Nastro d’Argento, the Globo d’Oro and shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival.

•  Committee member of Mostra del Cinema di Venezia (The Venice Film Festival).
•  Author of the academic books Charles Laughton, The Night of the Hunter and Cinema’s Geography.
•  Author and former director of the critique magazine Cineforum.
•  Professor of Cinema techniques at Scuola Holden, the most important storytelling school in Italy.