Domenico Starnone

Domenico Starnone is an Italian writer, screenwriter, and journalist. His work has been translated into English, German and several other languages. These include Prima esecuzione and Confidenza. His novel Via Gemito won Italy's highest literary honour, the Strega Prize, as well as the Naples Prize for Literature, in 2001 and was also a finalist in the prestigious Campiello Prize prize that year.