Francesca Melandri (born June 9, 1964, in

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) is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. She was the recipient of the

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for ''Più alto del mare'' in 2012. She started writing very young, working first as a screenwriter, and has worked on films and television series, as well as a number of prize winning documentaries. In 2010 she published her first novel, ''Eva dorme'' (''Eva Sleeps''), set in the border regions of

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and

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. The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, was translated into English by Katherine Gregor (2016), as well as into German, Dutch and French. Melandri's second novel, ''Più alto del mare,'' was published in 2012. It won several prizes, including the National Literary Award for Female Writers ( Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice), and was nominated for the

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. In March 2020, in the midst of the

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, her ''Lettera dall'Italia,'' originally published in

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, and

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, was translated into many languages. Francesca Melandri is the sister of

Giovanna Melandri Giovanna Melandri (born 28 January 1962 in New York City) is an Italians, Italian politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994-2012) and held the positions of Minister of Culture (1998- 2001) and Minister of Youth and ...

and the cousin of Gianni Minoli.

Works

Narrative

* * * Each of the above works was re-published several times, in different

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