Silvia Avallone

Silvia Avallone (2010)

Silvia Avallone (born April 11, 1984 in Biella ) is an Italian poet and writer .

Life

Avallone received her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bologna . Some of her first poems and short stories appeared in the magazines ClanDestino and Nuovi Argomenti . In 2008 her poetry collection Il libro dei vent'anni was awarded a prize. Other prizes followed, as well as the screenplay for a film about Anna Magnani entitled Un'attrice e le sue donne in 2008 and her first novel Acciaio in 2010 , which sold half a million copies in Italy. Maike Albath was not very happy about the second novel Marina Bellezza .

Prizes and awards

2008: Premio Alfonso Gatto for the first work Il libro dei vent'anni
2010: Premio Campiello , Category First Work for Acciaio
2010: Premio Fregene , Literature Department
2010: Premio Strega (second place)
2010: Premio Eduardo Kihlgren (second place)

Works

2007: Poems: Il libro dei veint'anni. Edizioni della Meridiana, Florence ISBN 978-88-6007-094-4 .
2010: Novel: Acciaio. Rizzoli , Milan , ISBN 978-88-17-03763-1 .
- 2011: A summer made of steel , in German by: Michael von Killisch-Horn. Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart , ISBN 978-3-608-93898-2 .
Marina Bellezza . Rizzoli, Milan 2013, ISBN 978-88-17-87236-2
- Marina Bellezza , German by: Michael von Killisch-Horn. Klett-Cotta Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014 ISBN 978-3-608-98018-9

stories

Il futuro in sospeso. In: Grand Tour. Revisitare l'italia nei suoi 150 anno. Italainieuropei, 05/2010.
La lince. Short story together with the Corriere della Sera , Inediti d'Autore. 2011.

Film adaptations

2012: Acciaio , directed by Stefano Mordini; Actors: Vittoria Puccini , Michele Riondino et al.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Maike Albath : The needs of youth . Review, in: NZZ , October 4, 2014, p. 9
↑ Kolja Mensing : Do you know the country where the screens glow. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 14, 2011, p. 30.

personal data
SURNAME	Avallone, Silvia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 11, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH	Biella

[1] Maike Albath : The needs of youth . Review, in: NZZ , October 4, 2014, p. 9

[2] Kolja Mensing : Do you know the country where the screens glow. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 14, 2011, p. 30.