Giorgio Fontana

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Giorgio Fontana (born April 22, 1981 in Saronno , Italy) is an Italian writer.

Life

Giorgio Fontana grew up in the northern Italian industrial town of Caronno Pertusella . He studied comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Milan . His doctoral thesis examined the inner realism of Hilary Putnam .

He published his first novel Buoni propositi per l'anno nuovo in 2007 by the renowned Mondadori publishing house . He was in the final selection of the Premio Massarosa and the Premio Rea . In the following year two more of his short stories appear. The Novalis published by Marsilio is the novel about a group of young creative people who called themselves "Novalis". Babele 56. Otto fermate nella città che cambia , published by Terre di Mezzo , is a collection of stories and reports about migrants in Milan. The book was shortlisted for the Premio Tondelli in 2009 .

His breakthrough as a writer came with the novel Per legge superiore , published in 2011 by Sellerio . The fictional litigation drama has been translated into French and German and received a total of eight award nominations. With the volume of essays La velocità del buio , published by Zona in 2011 , Fontana examined the advance of the obscure in contemporary Italian society.

Fontana also worked as a journalist with articles for the daily newspapers Corriere della Sera and Il Manifesto as well as for Wired and Opendemocracy.net. From 2005 to 2010 he was co-editor of the literary magazine Eleanore Rigby .

The author earns his living (as of 2013) as a web content manager. Fontana has lived and worked in Milan for years .

Works

  • Buoni propositi per l'anno nuovo , Mondadori, 2007.
  • Novalis . Marsilio, 2008.
  • Babele 56. Otto fermate nella città che cambia , Terre di Mezzo, 2008.
  • Per legge superiore , Sellerio, 2011.
  • Morte di un uomo felice , Sellerio, 2014.
    • Death of a happy person . Novel. Translated from the Italian by Karin Krieger. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-312-00664-9 .

Awards

Competitive profits
  • Premio Sodalitas per il Giornalismo Sociale - Sezione Web 2011
  • Premio lo Straniero 2012
  • Premio Racalmare - Leonardo Sciascia 2012
  • Premio Letterario Chianti - 26th edition - 2013
  • Premio Campiello for Morte di un uomo felice - 2014
Final participation
  • Finalist of the Premio Massarosa 2007
  • Finalist of the Premio Rea 2007
  • Finalist of the Premio Tondelli 2009
  • Finalist of the Premio Stresa di Narrativa 2012
  • Finalist of the Premio Roma 2012
  • Finalist of the Premio Azzeccagarbugli 2012
  • Finalist of the Premio Minerva 2012
  • Finalist of the Premio Ultima Frontiera 2012
  • Finalist of the Premio Sila '49 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Abo Balardo (Italian) , published December 2, 2008, found August 6, 2013.
  2. ^ Author profile at the Hanser Verlagsgruppe , accessed on August 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Eleanore Rigby ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eleanorerigby.com
  4. ↑ Albo d'oro nel sito ufficiale del Premio Letterario Chianti .
personal data
SURNAME Fontana, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Saronno