Giorgio Scianna

Giorgio Scianna was born in 1964 in Pavia, where he lives and works in Milan. His novels, Fai di te la notte (2007, winner of the Comisso Prize), Diciotto secondi prima dell'alba (2010), Qualcosa c'inventeremo (2014 and 2024), the successful La regola dei pesci (2017 and 2021, winner of the Città di Como International Literature Prize), Cose più grandi di noi (2019 and 2022, winner of the Grazia Deledda Prize), La api non vedo il rosso (2021, winner of the Chianti Literary Prize), and Senza dirlo a nessuno (2024), have been published by Einaudi . Thanks to the Lo struzzo a scuola (The Ostrich at School) project, he has visited more than two hundred Italian schools with his books, meeting thousands of students and becoming a point of reference for teachers.