Davide Enia

Davide Enia (born April 2, 1974 in Palermo ) is an Italian writer.

Life

Davide Enia studied literature after graduating from high school and worked for the theater and wrote several plays. He performed his one-person play Italia-Brasile 3 a 2 about the game at the 1982 World Cup in the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on May 21, 2002 . In 2003 he won the Premio Tondelli, the Premio Riccione and the Premio Ubu speciale for the play Scanna , which was staged under his direction at the Biennale di Venezia di teatro in 2004. In 2006 he was promoted as a young artist with the Premio Vittorio Mezzogiorno and the Premio Gassman.

In 2012 the novel Così appeared in Terra , which was translated into several languages ​​and received the Prix ​​du premier roman in the French translation in 2016 .

Works (selection)

• Theater . Milan: Ubulibri, 2005
• Rembò . Rome: Fandango libri, 2006
• I capitoli dell'infanzia . Rome: Fandango libri, 2009
• Italia Brasile 3 a 2 . Palermo: Sellerio, 2010
• So in terra . Milan: Dalai, 2012
  • So on earth: Roman . Translation of Moshe Kahn . Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-8270-1220-3
• Maggio '43 . Palermo: Sellerio, 2013
• Uomini e pecore . Turin: EDT, 2014
• Prima che il buio circondasse ogni cosa . Illustrations by Massimo Kaufmann. Bagheria: Drago Edizioni, 2014
• with Tony Gentile: La guerra: una storia siciliana . Rome: Postcart, 2015
• Appunti per un naufragio . Palermo: Sellerio, 2017
  • Shipwreck off Lampedusa . Translation Susanne van Volxem, Olaf Mathhias Roth. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2019 ISBN 9783835334380

Web links

• Literature by and about Davide Enia in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Davide Enia in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Davide Enia at perlentaucher.de
• Davide Enia , website
• Davide Enia , at Wallstein
• Davide Enia , with Rowohlt