PUBLIC TALK BY ANTONIO FRANCHINI
Italian writer Antonio Franchini will hold a lecture at the Italian Embassy Cultural Centre on October 21 on the occasion of the Italian Language Week in the World.
Novelist, essayist, and editorial curator, Antonio Franchini was born in Naples in 1958 and currently lives and works in Milan. He made his fiction debut in 1992 with the short story collection Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi (Bagutta First Work Prize), followed by numerous works over the years, up to Il fuoco che ti porti dentro (2024, selected for the Campiello Prize). He was an editor at Mondadori for Italian fiction from 1991 to 2012, and then, until 2015, Director of Italian and Foreign Fiction. Since 2015 he has been the Editorial Director of Bompiani and Giunti Narrativa.