Paolo Giordano
Illustration — Paolo Giordano. Paolo Giordano (born 1982) is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
Paolo Giordano
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- Born
- 1982 · Turin.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- physicist · writer · novelist · screenwriter
- Education
- University of Turin
- Honours
- Strega Prize
- Languages
- Italian
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Biography
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Paolo Giordano was born on 19 December 1982, in Turin, Italy. He studied physics at the University of Turin and holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, has sold over a million copies and was translated into thirty languages. The Italian language film based on the novel was released in September 2010. His book How Contagion Works is one of the first to be written on the COVID-19 pandemic and warns of the danger of authoritarianism.
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Paolo Giordano, recorded as a writer, physicist and screenwriter, was born in 1982 in Turin. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Filmography
• As writer • We Are Who We Are (2020) • Dry (2022)
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1982
Paolo Giordano born at Turin.
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• 2008: Strega Prize (The Solitude of Prime Numbers) • 2008: Premio Campiello for a first novel (The Solitude of Prime Numbers)
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- 1.Cristina Tagliabue, Chi è Paolo Giordano, un fisico sui generis , Il Sole 24 Ore, 4 luglio 2008.
- 2.Foto della premiazione dello Strega, 3 luglio 2008.
- 3.Intervista di Ranieri Polese. Paolo Giordano. Noi generazione "post": cresciuti senza politica con la passione dei numeri. Corriere della Sera. 41. 2008.
- 4.Intervista di Mirella Serra, "Io, Baricco non lo conosco", La Stampa, 5 luglio 2008.
- 5.Mario Porqueddu, Con me tornò la severità, buttai il tema, Corriere della Sera, 25 giugno 2009.
- 6.I migliori laureati , anni 2004-2006, Università di Torino.
- 7.I complimenti del presidente dell'INFN al fisico vincitore del Premio Strega, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, 4 luglio 2008.
- 8.Report I anno - Scuola di dottorato in Scienza e Alta tecnologia di Torino, indirizzo in Fisica ed Astrofisica.
- 9.Intervista di Stefania Leo, La matematica e lo stile. Intervista a Paolo Giordano , Raramente.net, 12 giugno 2008.
- 10.Paolo Giordano vincitore del Premio Fiesole Narrativa Under 40 ed. 2008 , Comune di Fiesole, 19 novembre 2008.
- 11.Paolo Fallai, Strega, trionfa l'esordiente Giordano, Corriere della Sera, 4 luglio 2008.
- 12.«Scienza e letteratura»: premio ad Alleva, Corriere della Sera, 10 luglio 2008.
- 13.Caterina Bonvicini e Paolo Giordano vincono il premio letterario Frignano , il Resto del Carlino, 7 agosto 2008.
- 14.Alassio: Paolo Giordano vincitore ad Alassio Centolibri , Savona News, 25 agosto 2008.
- 15.I cinque finalisti del Premio P.E.N. Club Italiano 2008.
- 16.Vitto in the box - Festival delle Letterature 2008
- 17.Mondi al limite - Medici Senza Frontiere.
- 18.Paolo Giordano, Kinshasa, il destino è un numero colorato , La Stampa, 16 maggio 2008.
- 19.marzo 2018. InternetArchiveBot.
- 20.Imdb tt1441373 La solitudine dei numeri primi
- 21.Clara Caroli, Una lunga estate sul set, la Repubblica, Torino, 24 giugno 2009, p. 15.
- 22."La solitudine dei numeri primi" al cinema nel 2010, Mondadori Blog, 20 gennaio 2010.
- 23.Saverio Costanzo: ciak per "La solitudine dei numeri primi". news.cinecitta.com. 19 marzo 2009.
- 24.Cita web https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wn-rushes-out-urgent-exploration-covid-19-emergency-1196197 W&N rushes out 'urgent exploration of Covid-19 emergency'
- 25.Cita web https://www.ilpost.it/2020/03/25/editoria-librerie-chiuse-coronavirus/ Il Post: Cosa sta succedendo nell’editoria
- 26.Cita web https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/libri/altre_proposte/2021/05/24/arrivano-i-quanti-einaudi-nuova-collana-di-ebook_38ef1319-d5fb-46b6-b7d2-373216452156.html Ansa.it - Arrivano i 'Quanti' Einaudi, nuova collana di ebook
- 27.Alice Figini. Intervista a Paolo Giordano: "La pandemia, il nucleare e la mia Tasmania". SoloLibri.net.
- 28.Tasmania, esce nuovo romanzo Paolo Giordano conteso alla Buchmesse - Libri - Narrativa. Agenzia ANSA. 19 ottobre 2022.
- 29.Stefano Montefiori. Premio Malraux a Paolo Giordano e a Rushdie. Corriere della Sera. 11 novembre 2023.
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Paolo Giordano is recorded as physicist, writer, novelist and screenwriter.
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