Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista
Tonino Benacquista in 2015 by Claude Truong-Ngoc

Tonino Benacquista (born in Choisy-le-Roi on 1 September 1961) is a French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita (as Badfellas ^[1] for the 2010 English translation), which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media and EuropaCorp titled The Family , released on 13 September 2013 in North America. The novel Malavita was republished as The Family for a movie tie-in by Penguin Random House in 2013. ^{[2] [3]}

Novels

• Saga [fr] , Éditions Gallimard, 1997
• Quelqu'un d'autre  [ fr ], Éditions Gallimard, 2001
• Malavita [fr] , Éditions Gallimard, 2004
• Malavita encore  [ fr ], Éditions Gallimard, 2008
• Homo erectus, Éditions Gallimard, 2011
• Romanesque, Éditions Gallimard, 2016
• Toutes les histoires d'amour ont été racontées, sauf une, Éditions Gallimard, 2020
• Porca miseria, Éditions Gallimard, 2022
• Tiré de faits irréels, Éditions Gallimard, 2025

Awards

• 1992 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Commedia des ratés
• 1998 Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for L'Outremangeur; Grand prix des lectrices de Elle for Saga, Éditions Gallimard
• 2001 César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation for Sur mes lèvres , shared with Jacques Audiard
• 2005 César Award for Best Adaptation, for The Beat That My Heart Skipped , shared with Jacques Audiard

References

1. Benacquista, Tonino (31 August 2012). Badfellas. Bitter Lemon Press. ISBN   978-1-908524-15-7.
2. Benacquista, Tonino (27 September 2013). The Family. Bitter Lemon Press. ISBN   978-1-908524-22-5.
3. Benacquista, Tonino (25 June 2013). Malavita. Penguin. ISBN   978-1-101-61617-8.

External links

• Tonino Benacquista fansite