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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 ...
Sep 1, 2019 · This interview with Edoardo Albinati was made in London on 27 th August, 2019, when the writer presented the English edition of his 1,263 page book at the Italian Cultural Institute London in conversation with Fiammetta Rocco, Culture Editor of The Economist and 1843 magazine.
Mar 17, 2016 · Edoardo Albinati's The Catholic School, the winner Italy's most prestigious award, The Strega Prize, is a powerful investigation of the heart and soul of contemporary Italy. Three well-off young men--former students at Rome's prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno--brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975.
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The Catholic School (Italian: La scuola cattolica) is a 2021 Italian drama film directed by Stefano Mordini. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Edoardo Albinati and is based on the 1975 Circeo massacre. [1]
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.
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.
Aug 19, 2019 · The Circeo rape of 1975 is an historical crime, and thus Albinati’s book moves between fiction, history, memoir and philosophy in order to explore violence as a product of the culture and the...
