Millanta Peppe

Liberevento authors

Peppe Millanta

(pseudonym), author

After a few years as a street musician in a World Music group (Peppe Millanta & Balkan Bistrò), he graduated from the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome in dramaturgy and screenwriting. He has written and staged numerous plays and for some years he has dedicated himself to writing screenplays for cinema and television products. In 2018 he made his debut with the novel ” Vinpeel degli orizzonti”, a small editorial case with which he won numerous national awards, including the John Fante Award (2018), the Alda Merini Award (2018), the City of Como Award (2019), as well as being nominated for the Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi Award (2018) and selected for the Campiello Opera Prima Award (2018). In 2017 he founded the Macondo School – l’Officina delle Storie, a writing and reading school dedicated to narrative arts that operates in various parts of Italy. He was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2020 with the book “La rotta delle nuvole” (Ediciclo Ed.).