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Life and career. Born in Rome, after Albinati started his career as a translator, a script adaptor and editor of the magazine Nuovi Argomenti. He made his debut as a writer in 1988, with a collection of short stories titled Arabeschi della vita morale. His 1989 novel Il polacco lavatore di vetri was adapted into a film, The Ballad of the ...
Albinati studied law at the University of Rome and worked as a journalist for several Italian newspapers and magazines. He has also written several books, including the novel The Catholic School, which was adapted into a film in 2020. Albinati is married and has two children. He currently lives in Rome.
- 67 years old
- Writer
- 11 October, 1956
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Sep 1, 2019 · Alain Elkann interviews Edoardo Albinati at the Italian Cultural Institute, London. Edoardo Albinati won the Premio Strega literary prize, Italy’s equivalent of the Booker. Angelo Izzo, known as the ‘Monster of Circeo’, is an Italian criminal who was at school with Edoardo Albinati.
Aug 13, 2020 · This interview, conducted over email—questions in English, responses in Italian (translated by poet, playwright, and co-translator of the English stage adaptation of Roberto Saviano’s best-selling true crime book Gomorrah, Dave Johnson)—aims not to uncover the biography of the author Edoardo Albinati, but rather to dive deeper still into ...
Aug 19, 2019 · Book review: Edoardo Albinati’s novel moves between fiction and philosophy to explore violence
Aug 19, 2019 · Albinati’s novel is about a number of things—fascism, the petite bourgeois, Rome in the 1970s, growing up in a private all-boys school—and it revolves around the true story of an abduction and gruesome attack of two working class young women by men who attended the same school as Albinati.
Edoardo Albinati is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who lives in Rome. His novel Svenimenti won the Viareggio Literary Award, and The Catholic School won the Strega Prize.
