Nicola Lagioia
Nicola Lagioia (born April 18, 1973 in Bari ) is an Italian writer.
Life
Nicola Lagioia published his first novel Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj in 2001 . Together with Francesco Longo, Francesco Pacifico and Christian Raimo, he wrote the story Dopo Cristo in 2005 for the collective of authors under the name Babette Factory .
In 2010 he received the Premio Vittorini, the Premio Volponi and the Premio Viareggio for the novel Riportando tutto a casa . In 2015 he was awarded the Premio Strega for La ferocia .
Lagioia works as editor of the Italian program for minimum fax and lives in Rome. From 2013 to 2015 he was a member of the selection jury of the Venice International Film Festival . In 2016 he was appointed director of editorial at the Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin .
Works (selection)
- with Andrea Piva under the name Aldo Dieci: Route 66 . Castelvecchi, 1999
- Tre sistemi per sbarazzarsi di Tolstoj (senza risparmiare se stessi) . Novel. Rome: minimum fax, 2001
- Occidente per principianti . Novel. Turin: Einaudi, 2004
- with Christian Raimo (ed.): La qualità dell'aria . Short story anthology. 2004
- with Francesco Longo, Francesco Pacifico, Christian Raimo under the name Babette Factory: Dopo Cristo . Rome: Einaudi, 2005
- Babbo Natale . Essays. Rome: Fazi, 2005
- Fine della violenza . Narrative. Psiche e Aurora editore, 2005
- Riportando tutto a casa . Novel. Turin: Einaudi, 2009
- Un altro nuotatore . Narrative. Milan: Feltrinelli, 2012 ISBN 978-88-588-5040-4
- I miei genitori . Narrative. Turin: Einaudi, 2013 ISBN 978-88-584-0756-1
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La ferocia . Novel. Turin: Einaudi, 2014
- Freezing South: Roman . Translation of Monika Lustig. Zurich: Secession Verlag für Literatur, 2016 ISBN 978-3-905951-89-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Nicola Lagioia in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Nicola Lagioia in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Nicola Lagioia at perlentaucher.de
- Nicola Lagioia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nicola Lagioia , at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2016
- Nicola Lagioia , at secession
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicola Lagioia ha vinto il premio Strega , in: Internazionale , July 3, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lagioia, Nicola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bari |