Veronica Raimo (born 1978) is an Italian writer, translator, and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in Rome in 1978, she earned a degree in literature with a thesis on German cinema. After graduation, she lived in Berlin, working as a researcher at Humboldt University. She is sister of the writer Christian Raimo.

Career

After working as a translator from English for several publishing houses, she published the novel ''Il dolore secondo Matteo'' in 2007''.'' This debut was followed by two more novels, stories published in magazines and anthologies, and a collection of short stories published in Germany, ''Eines Tages alles dir''. ''The Girl at the Door'', published in October 2019 by Grove Atlantic, is her first novel to be translated into English. In 2012 she co-wrote the film '' Bella addormentata'' ("Sleeping Beauty") directed by Marco Bellocchio, receiving a 2013

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(Silver Ribbon) nomination for best screenplay. Her articles and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers including '' Rolling Stone'', ''la Repubblica XL'', ''il manifesto'', ''

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'' and '' Amica''. In 2022 she won the Premio Strega Giovani prize for her novel ''Niente di vero''.https://premiostrega.it/PSG/la-ix-edizione-del-premio-strega-giovani-va-a-veronica-raimo/

Selected works

* ''Il dolore secondo Matteo'',

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, 2007, * ''Tutte le feste di domani'',

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, 2013, * ''Miden: romanzo'', Mondadori, 2018, (''The girl at the door'',

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, 2020, , trans. Stash Luczkiw) * ''Le bambinacce'', Feltrinelli, 2019, * ''Lezioni di anatomia: il corpo umano in quindici storie'', Minimum fax, 2019, * ''Niente di vero'', Einaudi, 2022, (''Lost on Me'',

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, 2023, , trans. Leah Janeczko)

References

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