Abate Francesco

Liberevento authors

Francesco Abate

Journalist and author

His debut as a writer was in 1996 with L’Oratorio – Forbidden to children under 14, a short story, included in the collective Racconti di Celluloide (Alambicco). Since then, he has written 10 novels (two with Massimo Carlotto, one with Saverio Mastrofranco or the actor Valerio Mastandrea) for the publishing houses Castelvecchi, Il Maestrale, Frassinelli, Edizioni Ambiente and Einaudi. He has participated in 9 short story collections, written plays, texts for television and film scripts. Some of his books are translated in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Greece. In 1999 he won the best subject at the Solinas Prize with ‘Ultima di serie’, with “Mi fido di te” he won the Prize of the Libraio Città di Padova 2007, with the novel “Chiedo scusa”, Einaudi Stile Libero, in 2011 he won the Alziator Prize, in 2014 he won the Lawrence Prize with the novel “Un posto anche per me”, Einaudi Stile Libero. Since 2013 he has curated the Freschi series for Caracò Editore. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2012, in 2016 with the book “Mia madre e altre catastrofi” (Ed. Einaudi), in 2020 with “Giallo Sardo” (Piemme Ed.) and in 2022 with “Il complotto dei calafati” (Ed. Einaudi).