Domenico Starnone

Domenico Starnone (born 1943) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and journalist.

Born in Saviano, near Naples, he has worked for several newspapers and satirical magazines, including L'Unità, Il Manifesto, Tango, and Cuore, usually about episodes of his life as a high school teacher. He also works as screenwriter.

The movies La scuola (by Daniele Luchetti) and Denti (by Gabriele Salvatores) are based on his books.

His most appreciated book is Via Gemito, which won the Premio Strega in 2001. It was suggested in 2006^[1] that the mysterious writer Elena Ferrante, author of L'amore molesto and I giorni dell'abbandono, is Starnone himself.

Selected bibliography

• Ex cattedra (1988)
• Il salto con le aste (1989)
• Segni d'oro (1990)
• Fuori registro (1991)
• Sottobanco (1992)
• Eccesso di zelo (1993)
• Appunti sulla maleducazione di un insegnante volenteroso (1995)
• Denti (1996)
• La retta via (1997)
• Via Gemito (2000)
• Prima esecuzione (2007)

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