Giovanna Giordano

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Giovanna Giordano
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Born (1961-11-12) 12 November 1961 (age 63)
Milan, Italy
OccupationNovelist
NationalityItalian
Notable works Un volo magico
Notable awards Premio Recalmare Sciascia (1996, 2004)

Giovanna Giordano (12 November 1961) is an Italian writer and journalist. She has three award-winning and critically acclaimed novels published to date: Trentaseimila giorni (Thirty-six Thousand Days), Un volo magico (A Magic Flight) and Il Mistero di Lithian (The Mystery of Lithian). Her first novel Cina cara io ti canto, unpublished, was a finalist for the fifth annual Premio Calvino, recommended by Gesualdo Bufalino. [1]

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Life and career

Giovanna Giordano was born in Milan in 1961 and raised in Messina, [2] the daughter of the scientist Nicola Giordano. She studied African Art History and teaches Philosophy and Phenomenology of the Image at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. [3] As a journalist, she has written for La Stampa, Il Giornale di Sicilia, Il Mattino and currently for La Sicilia.

Her novel Un volo magico was published in German by the publishing Lübbe in 1999 [4]

Her novels Treintaseimila giorni and Il mistero di Lithian were winners of the Premio Racalmare Sciascia [5]

All her novels are journeys from Sicily to other places outside of Italy.

Novels

References

  1. ↑ "Premio Italo Calvino Finalisti".
  2. ↑ Moro, Di Elisabetta (25 September 2020). "Giovanna Giordano è la scrittrice italiana candidata al premio Nobel per la letteratura e dobbiamo conoscerla". ELLE.
  3. ↑ "Accademia Belle Arti di Catania". accademiadicatania.com. Archived from the original on 15 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Amazon listing" (PDF). www.amazon.de. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Il paese di GROTTE (AG): Premio Letterario "Racalmare - Leonardo Sciascia - Città di Grotte"". www.grotte.info.
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