Domenico Starnone

Domenico Starnone (* 1943 in Saviano ) is an Italian writer , screenwriter and journalist .

Life

Starnone writes a. a. for the features of the newspapers L'Unità and Il Manifesto and for satirical magazines such as Cuore and Tango . The topics are generally shaped by his professional activity as a teacher. He is particularly interested in teaching Italian and history .

As a screenwriter, he was mainly involved in the following films: La scuola (German: Die Schule ; 1995) by Daniele Luchetti , Auguri, Professore ( congratulations, Mr. Teacher!; 1997) by Riccardo Milani and Denti ( teeth ; 2000) by Gabriele Salvatores .

His most acclaimed book is Via Gemito , which won the Premio Strega in 2001 .

Starnone is married to the translator Anita Raja , about whom it is said that she publishes under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante . The computer linguist Jacques Savoy argues with the help of computer-aided stylometric methods that Starnone is behind this pseudonym.

Works

Original editions

Ex cattedra (1988)
Il salto con le aste (1989)
Segni d'oro (1990)
Fuori registro (1991)
Sottobanco (1992)
Eccesso di zelo (1993)
Appunti sulla maleducazione di un insegnante volenteroso (1995)
Denti (1996)
La retta via (1997)
Via Gemito (2000); awarded the Premio Strega 2001
Prima esecuzione (2007)
Lacci (2014)

German translations

Star chariot . Translation of Benno Boudgoust. Djre, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-928981-00-5
Via Gemito . Translation Gerhard Kofler . Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85218-476-2
The razor . Translation of Helene Flöss . Haymon, Innsbruck / Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85218-506-8
Always connected , DVA, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3421048073

Web links

Literature by and about Domenico Starnone in the catalog of the German National Library
Interview at rainews24.it (2002/2005)
Profile at Feltrinelli
Profile at zam.it
Raffaela Carretta: Domenico Starnone: “Ma come ve lo devo dire che non sono Elena Ferrante?” , Interview, at IO Donna , June 26, 2015

credentials

↑ Jacques Savoy: “Is Starnone really the author behind Ferrante?”, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , Volume 33, Issue 4, December 1, 2018, Pages 902–918, doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Starnone, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian writer, screenwriter and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1943
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saviano

[1] Jacques Savoy: “Is Starnone really the author behind Ferrante?”, In: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities , Volume 33, Issue 4, December 1, 2018, Pages 902–918, doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqy016 .