Franco Supino

Franco Supino (born July 27, 1965 in Solothurn ) is a Swiss writer .

Supino, raised bilingually as the son of Italian parents, studied German and Romance languages at the universities of Zurich and Florence . Between 1983 and 1990 he wrote several features , radio stories and a radio play for the Swiss radio station DRS . Supino's first novel Musica Leggera was published in 1995. He has since published five more novels, two of which are dedicated to the fate of artists: “Ciao amore, ciao” is based on the biography of the singer Dalida , while “The Other Life” is the last few weeks in the playwright's life Cäsar von Arx themed. Supino also writes for children and young people. The two SJW volumes, Die Poacher der Maremma and Linas Stein, and the large-scale youth novel Wasserstadt , which is based on Gotthelf material and a current construction project in Solothurn and for which it has received several awards, bear witness to this . The story "Hau ab, Bruderherz" is aimed at young people from the age of 12 and deals with the subject of the flight of minors. Mino and the child robbers tells an exciting story with historical reference for children aged 8 and up. The relationship between Chiara and her Nonno Mino remains after his death - thanks to stories - preserved.

Franco Supino is a lecturer at the FHNW University of Education .

Works

• Musica Leggera . Novel. Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 1995, ISBN 3-85869-126-7 .
• The beauty of the world or the way back . Novel. Nagel & Kimche , Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-312-00235-4 .
• The song of the blind . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-312-00253-2 .
• Ciao amore, ciao . Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3-85869-269-7 .
• The Maremma poachers . Illustrated by Hannes Binder . Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 2007 (= SJW, Volume 2261).
• The other life . Novel. Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-85869-376-1 .
• Solothurn is by the sea . Knapp, Olten 2009, ISBN 978-3-905848-23-6 .
• Lina's stone . Illustrated by Maria Stalder. Schweizerisches Jugendschriftenwerk, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7269-0643-6 (= SJW, Volume 2455).
• Water town. Dreams, money and reality . Novel. Kwasi , Solothurn 2013, ISBN 978-3-906183-11-4 .
• Get out of here, brother . Narrative. Dabux, Buochs ​​2017, ISBN 978-3-906876-05-4 .
• Mino and the child robbers . Children's novel. Baeschlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3-85546-350-3 .

Awards

• 1986 working year for the Canton of Solothurn
• 1998 Pro Helvetia grant
• 2000 scholarship at the writers' house in Stuttgart
• 2001 town clerk in Rottweil
• 2001 Prize for Literature from the Canton of Solothurn
• 2003 Award of the Kurt Alten Cultural Foundation
• 2011 Pro Helvetia work grant
• 2015 Hausacher Reading Lenz - city ​​clerk for the youth book division
• 2020 Writer in Residence Franz Edelmaier Residence for Literature and Human Rights, Merano

Web links

• Publications by and about Franco Supino in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Franco Supino in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Franco Supino
• Entry about Franco Supino in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland