Francesca Marciano (born

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

, 17 July 1955) is an Italian novelist, screenwriter and actress. She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for ''Casa Rossa'' in 2003. She won a

David di Donatello The David di Donatello Awards, named after Donatello's ''David (Donatello, bronze), David'', a symbolic statue of the Italian Renaissance, are film awards given out each year by the ''Accademia del Cinema Italiano'' (the Academy of Italian Cin ...

award for best screenplay with '' Damned the Day I Met You'', a film directed by

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in 1992.

Works in English

* ''Rules of the wild'', New York : Vintage Books, 1999. * ''Casa Rossa'', Pantheon, New York, 2005. * ''The end of manners'', New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2009. * ''The other language : stories'', New York : Vintage Books, 2015. * ''Animal Spirit: stories'', New York : Alfred A Knopf, 2020.

Works

* ''Casa Rossa : romanzo'', Milano : TEA, Tascabili degli Editori Associati, 2003. * ''La fine delle buone maniere : romanzo'', Milano : Teadue, 2009.

References

Italian women novelists 20th-century Italian women writers 20th-century Italian novelists 20th-century Italian actresses 21st-century Italian novelists 21st-century Italian women writers Italian women screenwriters Italian screenwriters Ciak d'oro winners Writers from Rome Actresses from Rome 1955 births Living people David di Donatello winners {{Italy-writer-stub