Francesca Melandri

Francesca Melandri (2018)

Francesca Melandri (born June 9, 1964 in Rome ) is an Italian writer.

Life

Melandri has written a variety of screenplays that were made into films in Italy, including the films Zoo by Cristina Comencini (1988), Princess Fantaghirò by Lamberto Bava (1991), Bergkristall - Ververrt im Schnee (Cristallo di rocca) by Maurizio Zaccaro (1999 ), as well as some episodes of the TV series Chiara e gli altri , Nati ieri and Don Matteo .

Melandri placed her first novel Eva dorme , published in 2010, in the history of South Tyrol in the 1960s and 1970s . In 2018 she was awarded the Great Order of Merit of the State of South Tyrol . In 2019 she was awarded the honorary prize of the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action .

Her sister Giovanna Melandri is an Italian politician (Minister for Youth and Sport in the Romano Prodi government) and cultural manager.

Melandri's contemporary historical novel Alle, besides mir (2018) reached number 1 in the Top 25 of the monthly independent bestseller list of fiction published by the Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels in September 2018 . The Zeit reviewer praised the author for having “succeeded in creating a great contemporary historical novel about the fate of migrants and the poison of colonialism ”. The novel was also voted the Independents' Favorite Book in 2018. Until May 19, 2020, SWR2 broadcast a 39-part reading of the novel with Susanne-Marie Wrage as the reader every week as part of the series To be continued .

Quote

"The planet can finally breathe a sigh of relief as CO ₂ emissions are halved, but how are you going to pay your bills in a month?"

- Francesca Melandri : I am writing to you from the future. Appeal. In: Der Spiegel No. 14 / March 28, 2020, pp. 112–113.

Fonts

• Eva Dorme. Novel. Mondadori, Milan 2010
  • Eva is sleeping. Novel. Translation Bruno Genzler. Blessing, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89667-435-7 .
• Più alto del mare. Rizzoli, Milan 2012, ISBN 978-881705595-6 .
  • Above sea level. Novel. Translation Bruno Genzler. Blessing, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-89667-485-2 .
• Sangue giusto. Rizzoli, Milan 2017, ISBN 978-881709215-9 .
  • All except me. Novel. Translation by Esther Hansen . Wagenbach, Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-8031-4238-2 .

Web links

• Francesca Melandri in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Francesca Melandri in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Francesca Melandri in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Francesca Melandri at perlentaucher.de
• Igiaba Scego : Francesca Melandri , at premio strega, proposal 2018

Footnotes

1. ^ Honorary award of the Austrian book trade for tolerance in thought and action for Francesca Melandri. Retrieved July 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Top 25 of the monthly independent bestseller list of fiction from the Börsenblatt , börsenblatt .net, accessed September 20, 2018
3. ↑ Julia Schröder: "All, except me": Signor Profeti's life lies , review in Die Zeit from July 12, 2018, accessed September 20, 2018
4. ↑ Francesca Melandri: Everyone except me
5. ^ FAZ / Christiane Pöhlmann: Review