Francesca Melandri
Illustration — Francesca Melandri (2018) Francesca Melandri (born 9 June 1964 in Rome) is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Più alto del mare in 2012.
Francesca Melandri
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- Born
- 1964 · Rome.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- writer · screenwriter · documentarian · film director · novelist
- Fields
- film screenwriting · television screenwriting · documentary film
- Honours
- Stresa Prize · Jean Carrière Prize · Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln · Premio Selezione Campiello
- Languages
- Italian
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The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is film screenwriting, television screenwriting and documentary film. Distinctions recorded are Stresa Prize, Jean Carrière Prize, Ehrenpreis des österreichischen Buchhandels für Toleranz in Denken und Handeln and Premio Selezione Campiello.
She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries. In 2010 she published her first novel, Eva dorme (Eva Sleeps), set in the border regions of Northern Italy and Austria. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, was translated into English by Katherine Gregor (2016), as well as into German, Dutch and French. Melandri's second novel, Più alto del mare, was published in 2012. It won several prizes, including the National Literary Award for Female Writers (Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice), and was nominated for the Premio Campiello. In March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, her Lettera dall'Italia, originally published in The Guardian, Libération, and Der Spiegel, was translated into many languages. Francesca Melandri is the sister of Giovanna Melandri and the cousin of Gianni Minoli.
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Francesca Melandri appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a screenwriter and writer (born 1964). The birth of Francesca Melandri is recorded in 1964 in Rome.
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* * * • Francesca Melandri (2024). Bompiani (ed.). Piedi freddi. ISBN 9788830105379 Each of the above works was re-published several times, in different collections.
Francesca Melandri at Frankfurt Book Fair 2024
Elena Ternovaja
Francesca Melandri at Frankfurt Book Fair 2024
Elena Ternovaja
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- 1.Don Matteo 2000. movieplayer.it.
- 2.Teche Rai.
- 3.I SEGRETI DEGLI ALTRI. Don Matteo, ottavo episodio. kinoweb.it.
- 4.Barbara Gambino. Melandri: "Il mio Alto Adige". Trentino. 6 maggio 2010.
- 5.Eva sleeps - Europa Editions 2016.
- 6.Eva spava, Edizione Fraktura, 2017, traduzione Ana Badurina.
- 7.Nova Druk editions, Kiev
- 8.Francesca Melandri Eva schläft, Wagenbach Verlag, 2018,ISBN 978-3-8031-2805-8.
- 9.Eva slaapt, Cossee editore, 2011.
- 10.Eva dort, Gallimard edizioni, 2012.
- 11.Premio "F.Seminara", Selezione Opera Prima. circolorhegiumjulii.wordpress.com.
- 12.I vincitori del Premio Internazionale "Cesare De Lollis".
- 13."Il Molinello 2011" - Sezione opere edite.
- 14.Premio Nazionale Narrativa Maria Teresa Di Lascia.
- 15.M. Francesca Melandri. litteratures-europeennes.com.
- 16.Melandri sbanca il «Rapallo Carige».
- 17.Francesca Melandri si aggiudica la 40ª edizione del Premio. premioletterarioelba.it.
- 18.A Francesca Melandri il Premio Stresa di Narrativa.
- 19.Premio Campiello, opere premiate nelle precedenti edizioni.
- 20.FRANCESCA MELANDRI VINCE IL PREMIO LETTERARIO CITTÀ DI RIETI CON IL ROMANZO “PIÙ ALTO DEL MARE”.
- 21.Francesca Melandri.
- 22.Tous, sauf moi.
- 23.A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future. 27 marzo 2020.
- 24.Traduzione di Robert Maggiori. Lettre aux Français depuis leur futur. 18 marzo 2020.
- 25.Ich schreibe euch aus eurer Zukunft. 27 marzo 2020.
- 26.Fellows des Berliner Künstlerprogramms 2021.
- 27.I fascisti che siamo stati: "Piedi freddi" di Francesca Melandri.
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