Francesco Verso

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Francesco Verso
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Born Bologna, Italy
OccupationNovelist
NationalityItalian
Education Environmental Economics
Alma mater Roma Tre University
Period1996–2001
GenreScience fiction
Literary movementFuture Fiction
Notable awards Urania Award 2009 2015

Francesco Verso is an Italian science fiction writer and translator of science fiction from English into Italian. Born in Bologna, Italy, he lives and works in Rome.

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Biography

After earning a degree in Environmental economics from Roma Tre University in 2001, Verso started working for IBM in the personal computer division. He stayed on in 2005 when that division became Lenovo, the Chinese PC multinational technology company. He left Lenovo in 2008.[ citation needed ]

He started writing in 1996, first poems and then the novel Antidoti umani, which was nominated for a 2004 Urania Award. [1] In 2008 he received an honorable mention at the Premio Internazionale di Poesia for "Mario Luzi" [2] In 2009 he won the Urania Award with the novel Il fabbricante di sorrisi, published in the I romanzi di Urania series with the title e-Doll. [3]

In 2010, he finished his third novel, Livido, and the short stories "Flush", "Dodici centesimi", "Sogno di un futuro di mezza estate", "Due mondi", and "La morte in diretta di Fernando Morales". In 2011 he finished the novel Bloodbusters and began writing I camminatori. In 2012 his novel, Livido, won the Premio Odissea. [4] [5]

His novel Livido also won the Premio Cassiopea in 2014, [6] and received the Premio Italia [7] for best Italian science fiction novel. During the same year, the novel's Australian rights Australian publisher Xoum, and it was published in English as Livid.

From 2011 to 2013 he worked with Kipple Officina Libraria as co-editor of the literature series Avatar. [8] In 2014 he created the Future Fiction label, which specializes in publishing books in the science fiction genre originating from different countries, languages and cultures than Italy. [9] In 2015 he won his second Urania Award with his novel Bloodbusters [10] (equally placed with Sandro Battisti for the novel L'impero restaurato).

In 2018 he won an Italia Award as best editor for the series of book published on Future Fiction. [11]  

In 2019 he received at the Refesticon Convention in Montenegro the Golden Dragon Award (Zlatni Zmaj) for achievements in the development of Science Fiction Literature. [12]

Works

Novels

Short stories

Short Stories translated to English

Translations

Theater Adaptations

Audiobooks

Other publications

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Francesco Verso finalista premio Urania". Fantascienza.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Francesco Verso". Future Fiction. 10 June 2021.
  3. 1 2 Fantascienza.com, Premio Urania a Verso. "E-Doll". Fantascienza.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Vincitori Premio Odissea". Premio Odissea. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Manco, Emanuele (3 August 2013). "Francesco Verso: Livido". Carmilla (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  6. ↑ "Francesco Verso vince il Premio Cassiopea". Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  7. ↑ "Premio Italia, en plein per Delos". Fantasy Magazine. 25 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. ↑ "Noi- Kipple Officina Libraria". Kipple Officina Libraria. Archived from the original on 18 March 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Future Fiction: Francesco Verso". Rai 4 – Wonderland. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Bloodbusters, of Francesco Verso. "Premio Urania". Fantascienza.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  11. ↑ S*. "Premi Italia 2018: tutti i vincitori ∂ Fantascienza.com". Fantascienza.com (in Italian). Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  12. ↑ "Gosti iz Italije zanimljivo prezentovali tamošnje pisce naučne fantastike". radiobijelopolje.me. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  13. ↑ Verso, Francesco (19 October 2015). Nexhuman. Fantastica – An Imprint of Xoum. ISBN   9781921134913. Archived from the original on 21 November 2017. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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