Domenico Starnone

Domenico Starnone
is an Italian writer, screenwriter, and journalist.
His work has been translated into English, German and several other languages. These include Prima esecuzione and Confidenza.
His novel Via Gemito won Italy's highest literary honour, the Strega Prize, as well as the Naples Prize for Literature, in 2001 and was also a finalist in the prestigious Campiello Prize prize that year.
Said to be his masterpiece, the novel centers on a Neopolitan train conductor, Federí, facing a life filled with frustration, who unloads his dissatisfaction on his wife and eldest son, the novel's narrator.
Translated into English by Oonagh Stransky, The House on Via Gemito was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2024.
His thirteenth work of fiction, Ties was his second to be translated into English, and was awarded the Bridge Prize in 2017,
The Bridge Book Award project seeks to unite Italian and American cultures and strengthen mutual understanding.
In reports dated 2006, and more recent work in 2017 by Arjuna Tuzzi and Michele A.