Diego De Silva

Diego De Silva is an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He has published the novels La donna di escort (2001, previously published by Pequod Edizioni in 1999), Certi bambini (2001, Campiello Selection Prize, Brancati Prize, and Bergamo Prize) with Einaudi, I Want to Look (2002), From Another Flesh (2004), I Hadn't Understood Anything (2007, Naples Prize – Book of the Year; finalist for the Strega Prize), My Mother-in-Law Drinks (2010), I Am Against Emotions (2011), Missing Yourself (2013), Couples Therapy for Lovers (2015), Divorcing in Style (2017), Surface (2018). Among other awards, he also received the Pisa National Literary Prize for Fiction, ex aequo, in 2003. " Certi bambini" was adapted into a 2004 film of the same name, directed by brothers Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, which won numerous national and international awards, including the European Academy Award and two David di Donatello Awards; " Terapia di coppie per amanti" (Couple Therapy for Lovers) was adapted into a 2017 film of the same name, directed by Alessio Maria Federici. He also writes for film, contributing to the daily newspaper Il Mattino, the weekly magazine L'Espresso, and the cultural supplement Tuttolibri of the daily newspaper La Stampa. His books have been translated into English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek, Israeli, Serbian, and American.