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The film based on Niccolo Ammaniti's book will be shown at this year's prestigious Cannes film festival.Click here to see the interview:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0vQ8VtNkFAThe story:Barricato in cantina per trascorrere di nascosto da tutti la sua settimana bianca, Lorenzo, un quattordicenne introverso e un po' nevrotico, si prepara a vivere il suo sogno solipsistico di felicità: niente

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Luigi Trevor used to be a respected physics researcher and he’s now an hacktivist and founder of a revolutionary collective called “Nuclei Digitali Dissidenti”. When he manages to get hired by a big communication company called Fantasy Mix, with the intent of sabotaging their links with the repressive regimes of the Middle East, he's sent to replace Arianna, a former employee of the company who

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Love-struck tourists leave locks clipped to Brooklyn Bridge The symbolic gesture of everlasting infatuation popped up in Rome about five years ago as locals started copying the lustful characters in Italian author Federico Moccia’s popular novel “Ho Voglia di Te”, or “I Want You" in Italian.The trend then spread to Paris and became noticeable on the Brooklyn border in 2010.Moccia told England’s

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Piero has decided to follow the Lord, his Bachelor of Arts is leading him to Perdition, novels have filled his head with bullshit, his bourgeouis life in the upperclass Parioli area of Rome has taken him far away from the spiritual essence of things, travelling and sex have blinded him to the truth. So here he is, only just turning thirty, married to Alice, living in the outskirts of Rome in his

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Lo ScurnusoTommaso Iannacone's fingers are stiff with arthritis. He can no longer make a living moulding figurines for the wealthy Neapolitan families that once flocked to his workshops and he is forced to sell Sebastiano, his talented young apprentice. He fools himself into believing that he will one day buy Sebastiano back. The young apprentice is taken in by a famous local sculptor who gives

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A game of chess with your own destiny in Flavia Piccinni's intense novel20 novembre 2011 — pagina 48 sezione: CULTURAIn this universe where the last resort is boredom (or violence) there are many women who believe in imposing their dominance, but in reality they are bound to fail: the mother is leaving the family, the grandmother is coming back defeated from Taranto and Caterina's friend,

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This month "Apogeo Editore" published Ginevra Villa's work on ebook rights with a presentation of Kylee Doust. How do you calculate the earnings of an ebook? Is it useful to keep the ebook in the stores when the actual book is not available any more? You'll find the answers to these and many other questions!For more information check out this link! http://www.apogeonline.com/libri/9788850314096/

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Already a bestseller in Italy, Ammaniti’s slim but immensely engaging fourth novel presents Lorenzo Cuni, a precocious 14-year-old desperate for some space of his own. He achieves this respite from reality with “Operation Bunker,” an elaborate ruse whereby his parents believe he is skiing in the Italian Alps, when actually he has secluded himself in the basement of the family’s apartment building

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After a heated auction Suhrkamp managed to acquire the rights to LU CAMPO DI GIRASOLI by Andrej Longo. Andrej Longo Lu campo di girasoliFabula2011, pp. 186Letteratura Italiana

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Flavia Piccinni (Taranto, 1986), winner of the Premio Campiello Giovani award in 2005 is back with her second novel LO SBAGLIO, published by Rizzoli.Caterina is a mediocre student, specialising in pharmacy, but excels as a chess player. Before the sixty-four squares on the chessboard she has learned to shed her insecurity, to put off the tiresome decisions and accept the games of life where she

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In the beautiful setting of Capri, the author Niccolò Ammaniti recently received the Gorky Prize for his novel IO NON HO PAURA. This was the third edition of the Gorky Prize, aiming to promote cultural exchange between Russia and Italy.

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Federico Moccia's success in Spain continues!His acclaimed novel PERDONA PERO QUIERO CASARME CONTIGO is now out in the edición de bolsillo (pocket edition) for Planeta Editorial.

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A new novel by Andrej Longo is out now!The title is LU CAMPO DI GIRASOLI, and it is published by Adelphi.This is an unusual tale about love and violence, friendship and courage, taking place in the south of Italy, as seen from Andrej Longo's unique point of view. He uses a rare language, made up of several southern dialects, that conveys the feelings of a mediterranean summer.

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The pocket edition of SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE by Federico Moccia, is out in Germany for Ullstein Taschenbuch. The German title is ENTSCHULDIGE, ICH LIEBE DICH! The title is also available on trade and e-book editions.

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IL MECCANICO DELLE ROSE, the second novel by Hamid Ziarati, is now out in France. It's just been published by Editions Thierry Magnier with the title LE MECANICIEN DES ROSES.You can read an excerpt in French here!

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Niccolò Ammaniti's acclaimed novel CHE LA FESTA COMINCI is out in Spain! It is published in Castellano by Editorial Anagrama, with the title QUE EMPIECE LA FIESTA. The Catalan edition is published by Angle Editorial, with the title QUE COMENCI LA FESTA.A conference will be held in June in Barcelona to present the book to the press.

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Andrej Longo's novel CHI HA UCCISO SARAH? has been published in Germany by Eichborn Verlag. The German title is SARAHS MÖRDER.

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The successful novel CHE LA FESTA COMINCI by Niccolò Ammaniti is out in France! It is published by Editions Robert Laffont, and the French title is LA FÊTE DU SIÈCLE. The book has already received very good reviews from the critics and the press.

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MOSTRARSI, the new book by Andrea Canobbio has recently been published by Edizioni Nottetempo, in the collection Gransassi.

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The Slovene edition of IO E TE by Niccolò Ammaniti was published in March by Študentska založba, the title is JAZ IN TI.The author presented the book at the Festival Fabula in Ljubljana, on April 4th.Here below is a video of the event.

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The anthology of young Italian writers A CASA NOSTRA is out in Germany, published by Verlag Kraus Wagenbach. Among others, it features a short story by Davide Longo (Italian title "La Malaerba"), and one by Antonella Lattanzi (Italian title "Il disastro di Bari).

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L'UOMO CHE NON VOLEVA AMARE, the new novel by Federico Moccia, is out today in the Italian bookstores! It is published by Rizzoli.This is a new step in Federico Moccia's writing career, as this novel focuses on themes that will appeal to a more mature reading public: a tormented man. A woman in search of happiness. And and an overwelming story of love and passion.

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Ik haal je op, ik neem je mee, the Dutch translastion of Niccolò Ammaniti's novel Ti prendo e ti porto via, ranked number 22 in the CPNB top 100 of the 2010 best books sold in Holland. It was also the number 7 in the top 10 of the books in translation.Niccolò Ammaniti's novels in Holland are published by Lebowski Publishers. A paperback edition will be out on 22nd February.

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Federico Moccia knew a huge success in Spain during 2010. The data of the best-selling authors list, provided by the Nielsen Bookscan España, recently confirmed it.Federico Moccia is the number one of the 2010 adult-fiction category, beating authors such as Ken Follet, Stieg Larson and Mario Vargas Llosa.All the novels by Federico Moccia are published in Spain by Planeta Editorial.

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A lovely review about Giorgio Scianna's new novel 18 SECONDI PRIMA DELL'ALBA published in Il corriere della sera says that:"Scianna is talented at recreating this process of growing up, fraught with suspense and in a clear and solid writing style, his characters are fully formed...".Scianna "captures the main character Edoardo Gregotti, a good looking thirty year old neo-graduate lawyer who works

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Leonora Sartori's debut novel LA FORMA INCERTA DEI SOGNI has been translated into French with the title L'AUTOCOLLANT, and it will be published by Liana Levi on 3 February 2011. The French edition of the newspaper Metro dedicated a page to four new interesting authors - and Leonora is one of them! - that will be the highlights of this "rentrée littéraire" in France.

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Federico Moccia's novel AMORE 14 is out in Spain with the title CAROLINA SE ENAMORA, and it is published by Planeta.An interview with the author appeared on La Revista/20 Minutos. Federico explains how he finds the inspiration for his novels, and says that he is a romantic person: "I've lived through or felt some of the things I write about, I make up the rest". And talking about love, he adds: "

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Watch the booktrailer of Giorgio Scianna's new novel, 18 SECONDI PRIMA DELL'ALBA, published in Italy by Einaudi.Read the special article about this fascinating novel.

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A new short story by Francesco Pacifico has been published in the sixteenth issue of the prestigious UK magazine FIVE DIALS. You can read it here. Enjoy!

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A Spanish movie version of TRE METRI SOPRA IL CIELO by Federico Moccia, is out in the cinemas. The title is TRE METROS SOBRE EL CIELO, starring Mario Casas and Maria Valverde as the protagonists of the movie. During its first weekend, 315.000 people saw the movie, it is already considered as the Spanish success for 2010.Moccia's novels are published in Spain by Planeta Editorial.

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CHE LA FESTA COMINCI by Niccolò Ammaniti has recently been published in Russia, by the Azbooka Atticus Group. The Russian title is: Да будет праздник.Find out more about this edition on the Publisher's website.

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Niccolò Ammaniti's new novella IO E TE is already out in the Netherlands, for Lebowski Publishers. The Dutch title is JIJ EN IK. Check it out!

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IO E TE, the new novella by Niccolò Ammaniti, published by Einaudi Stile Libero, is out today in the Italian bookstores. Niccolò Ammaniti tells a coming-of-age story, in his special writing style.Enjoy this video of the author reading an excerpt from his new book.

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Mondadori has launched a booktrailer campaign for Cecilia Randall's new historical fantasy GENS ARCANA. And naturally, they started the competition off with their own official booktrailer!

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The wait is over: GENS ARCANA, the new historical fantasy novel by Cecilia Randall is out today, in bookstores across Italy!Find out more about GENS ARCANA on the author's website. The story is set in Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de' Medici. "The Arcane dynasties guard a hidden power, that is capable of unleashing the forces of nature and upsetting your very existence. And it mustn't end up

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Andrej Longo's successful book DIECI is now out in The Netherlands.The Dutch title is TIEN, and it is published by Uitgeverij van Gennep.More information at this link.

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As part of a series of story/reportage on the decay of today's Italy the daily newspaper IL MANIFESTO has published stories by three of the Agency's authors: 1) Andrej Longo "Shards of Normality", on Naples2)Davide Longo "The waiting room", on coming of age in Italy3) Antonella Lattanzi "Two cities, one decay", on Bari and Rome.Highly recommended!

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The film rights of Davide Longo's novel IL MANGIATORE DI PIETRE have been optioned in Germany, and will soon go into production. More exciting news about Davide: the translation rights of his third novel L'UOMO VERTICALE have been sold in China where it will be published by Shanghai 99.

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Davide Longo's Website is online at www.davidelongo.com You will find all the information about his books, activites, biography and news.

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Madrid, May 31st: a lovely sunny day in El Parque del Buen Retiro. Hundreds of fans waiting in a long queue. A huge succes for Federico Moccia's book signing: 1000 autographs in 8 hours!The author was delighted by the warm welcome of his Spanish readers. His books are published by Editorial Planeta and they are bestsellers in Spain.

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Will Love Locks take over the Brooklyn Bridge? Find out in this article from the Gothamist what’s happening on the famous bridge! Federico Moccia’s novels inspired people all around the world with the idea of using locks as symbols of their love, and sometimes friendship too. It all started in Rome, on the famous Ponte Milvio, then this phenomenon spread out to many other Italian cities. And

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Ju Amoruso's debut novel MI CHIAMO SCRIVO, published in Italy by Elliot edizioni, was presented in Milan on April 29th. The author, who wrote this book when she was 17, explained that writing helped her overcome a difficult time she was going through back then. Read more about it in this article from the newspaper Il Corriere della Sera.Ju Amoruso has a fan page on Facebook and her novel was

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Federico Moccia's success continues in Spain. The movie PERDONA SI TE LLAMO AMOR is out today in cinemas! Find out more about it in this Spanish article.

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Andrej Longo's short stories collection DIECI is out in France for Flammarion, under the title DIX.In Germany it is published by Eichbom, under the title ZEHN.

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STORIA DELLA MIA PUREZZA by Francesco Pacifico is being widely appreciated. We have selected some quotes from the press:Alessandro Piperno, Vanity Fair, 14 April 2010:
“In Pacifico’s prose lies an unstoppable sarcastic force. He is certainly one of the most talented writers of his generation. One of the few who takes writing seriously. For whom each sentence – to use a famous Flaubertian formula

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Editions Thierry Magnierpublished in FranceSALAM, MAMANthe first novel by Hamid Ziarati.His second novelIL MECCANICO DELLE ROSEwill also be published by Editions Thierry Magnier.

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Davide Longo's third novel has been sold to Editions Stock in France. They plan to publish L'HOMME VERTICAL as a lead title in September 2011.So far rights have been sold in Germany (Rowohlt) and the UK (Maclehose Press).

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Oscar van Gelderen from Lebowski in The Netherlands is planning a one of a kind launch for the publication of LAAT HET FEEST BEGINNEN! Niccolo' will be in Holland for a week which will include a lunch with authors and journalists, a party at "Nightwriters", a visit to the zoo, a quiz night, book signings in a tobacco shop and lots of other zany ideas. Ammaniti's novel (republished by LEBOWSKI in

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Niccolò Ammaniti's latest novel CHE LA FESTA COMINCI (Let the party begin), published by Stile Libero Einaudi, (10/09) has sold over 350.000 copies and has been in the top ten since its publication.Rights have been sold in fifteen countries: Canongate (World English), Lebowski (The Netherlands), Laffont (France), Fischer (Germany), Anagrama (Spain), Bertrand (Portugal), Bertrand (Brasil), Atticus

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The 26th of January saw the publication of the 5th novel by Federico Moccia in Spain: Scusa ma ti voglio sposare. While on a brief tour across Spain, Planeta had organised a book signing at the Corte Ingles. Set to start at 6pm, some fans had already started lining up at 4.30pm. In the end over 300 fans came along to meet Federico and have their photo taken with him. Naturally Planeta was

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Davide Longo's third novel L'UOMO VERTICALE has just been published by Fandango Libri. Leonardo is a once successful writer and professor who lives alone, isolated from his ex-wife and daughter, living a surrogate world through his books. He seems untouched by the violence of the world around him, even when part of his farm is burned town by townsfolk in protest of his friendliness towards a

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Leonora Sartori's beautifully told story, of a young girl who follows the dream which was at the heart of her parents' ideals, entitled LA FORMA INCERTA DEI SOGNI has just been published by Piemme.Online the website mysharpeville.it as well as the book trailer, produced by Francesco Meneghini.The translation rights have already been sold to Liana Levi in France.This is one of those heart-warming

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Three editions in just two days, and straight to the top of the bestseller lists in Spain, Planeta and the wonderfully talented and enthusiastic Berta Noy have launched Federico Moccia's latest novel SCUSA MA TI VOGLIO SPOSARE with a bang.Moccia visited Madrid, Bilbao and Barcelona where he met with a constant stream of journalists and attended book signings where people lined up for over an hour

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STORIA DELLA MIA PUREZZA by Francesco Pacifico, due out with Mondadori on March 16th has already conquered publishers across the globe. The first to buy his novel was Farrar, Straus & Giroux, followed by Ambo Anthos in Holland, Salamandra in Spain, Piper in Germany, Hamish Hamilton in the UK and Laffont in France.For information and a sample translation in English, please don't hesitate to

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In 2010 Piemme will publish the Leonora Sartori's debut novel: a universal coming of age story which touches on themes important to many people of the generation grown up in the '80s. Leonora Sartori has a magical, fresh narrative voice, giving her the ability to tell serious stories with a light touch.The French translation rights have been already sold to Éditions Liana Levi.

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Andrej Longo just finished his new novel:"Chi ha ucciso Sarah" that will come out with Adelphi in September. Furthermore the translation rights both for "Dieci" and "Chi ha ucciso Sarah" are currently under negotiation in Germany.

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Federico Moccia came back to Spain for Sant Jordi's Day in Barcelona in April, and to the Feria del Libro de Madrid in May. Hundreds of people queued up at his his stand to have their books signed.

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A choral novel, a family saga. Set against the backdrop of the middle East, Hamid tells the story of Reza as seen through the eyes of his uncle, his cousin, his wife, his daughter, and his one true love. Hamid’s novel is a homage to the circle of life and leaves the reader asking whether it is Reza or Destiny that moves the pieces of his life.Einaudi, May 2009250 p.

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Editorial Planeta published in Spain the second novel of Federico Moccia HO VOGLIA DI TE (Tengo ganas de ti), bestseller in Italy with 1,400,000 copies sold.www.federicomoccia.es

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The German edition of Davide Longo's IL MANGIATORE DI PIETRE (Der Steingänger), published by Wagenbach and translated by Suse Vetterlein, is shortlisted for the german edition of the Campiello Prize.Awards ceremony:Berlin, April 23rd 2009

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In occasion of the launch of the Portuguese edition of HO VOGLIA DI TE (QUERO-TE MUITO) Federico Moccia gave a presentation together with the journalist Fernanda Freitas on November 6th in Lisbon.

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Andrej Longo's wonderful collection of stories keeps winning prizes.On Sunday 26th October Dieci (Ten) won the XX edition of the Chiara Prize.Founded in 1989 in memory of Piero Chiara, and is awarded to Italian short novels published in Italy or in Italian Switzerland.Dieci (Ten) has now collected the Bagutta, the Bergamo, the Cala di Volpe and the Vittorini prizes and "superprize" awarded by

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From 14th October Editorial Planeta republished in Spain the first novel of Federico Moccia TRE METRI SOPRA IL CIELO (A TRES METROS SOBRE EL CIELO), bestseller in Italy with 2,000,000 copies sold.

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Calmann-Lévy will publish AMORE 14 the new Federico Moccia's bestseller, continuing the partnership started with HO VOGLIA DI TE and SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE.

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Planeta Brasil and O Quinto Selo (Portugal) will publish Moccia's bestselling novel SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE (1,000,000 copies sold in Italy, besteller in Spain) in Portuguese.

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With an amazing first print-run of 400,000, AMORE 14 (LOVE 14) came out on October 2nd with Feltrinelli.AMORE 14 is the fresh, sweet and fun voice of teen-agers and it is bound to repeat, if not exceed, the success of Moccia's previous books.Its publication is being accompanied by a great marketing campain: check out the book's website at http://www.amore14.it/. Foreign rights handled by the

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The French Book Club edition (Le Grand Livre du Mois) of Federico Moccia's J’AI FAILLI TE DIRE JE T’AIME (SORRY, I'M CALLING YOU LOVE) is now at its third print-run.

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Canobbio's beautifully written PRESENTIMENTO (FOREBODING) won the D. H. Lawrence Prize as best fiction. The D. H. Lawrence is an international award for travel literature.French rights to PRESENTIMENTO have also recently been bought by Gallimard.Foreign rights handled by the Kylee Doust Agency.

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Andrej Longo's wonderful collection of stories keeps winning prizes.After winning one of the three Vittorini prizes awarded by the critics' jury, Dieci (Ten) has also won the Vittorini Superpremio, the "superprize" awarded by the popular jury to one of the three winning books.Dieci (Ten) has now collected the Bagutta, the Bergamo, the Cala di Volpe and the Vittorini prizes, and is short-listed

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La Republica's magazine listed Hamid Ziarati as one of the most interesting non-Italians who write in Italian: "a unique and expressive voice".Ziarati's first book, Salam, Maman, was published by Einaudi in 2006. It tells the story of an Iranian family before and after Khomeini's revolution through a tender and sobre voice that both warms and breaks the heart. It is a long-selling little gem (

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Andrej Longo's wonderful collection of stories keeps enchanting the Italian critics and public.After winning the Bagutta and Bergamo prizes, DIECI (Ten) has recently won the Vittorini and the Cala di Volpe prizes.The Vittorini Prize is a Sicilian award which was instituted thirteen years ago in memory of the great Sicilian author Elio Vittorini.The Cala di Volpe Prize is a 10,000 euro Sardinian

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Also known as "The Day of Lovers," La Diada de Sant Jordi is the Catalan version of Valentine's Day, only with a unique literary twist. On April 23, which is also World Book Day, men give women roses and women give men a book. On las Ramblas, and all over the city, hundreds of stands of roses and bookstalls are set up for the occasion.Federico Moccia was there this year and hundreds of people

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Andrej Longo's Dieci (Ten) has won the Bergamo Prize.The short-list comprised five very strong titles which were chosen by a jury of authors and critics. The winner was voted by a popular jury composed of about a hundred readers of all ages.Apart from winning the Bagutta anf Bergamo prizes, Longo's wonderful collection of stories is currently short-listed for the following prizes:

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Simone Perotti's novel L'estate del disincanto already praised by Corriere della Sera: Altomare, one of the main characters, compared to Shakespeare's Prospero.A novel that reminds of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Conrad and Stevenson.

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Simone Perotti's L'estate del disincanto (The Summer of Disenchantment) is now out with Bompiani.This is what the famous Swedish author Björn Larsson writes about the book:'How could one write an adventure novel today in Italy? If I knew it I wouldn't waste time explaining it, I would write it.'This is what Calvino writes in his 1953 essay on the lack of success of the Italian novel (Mancata

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Dieci (Ten), Andrej Longo's brutally beautiful collection of stories published by Adelphi, is on the short-list of the Bancarella Prize. Born in 1953, the Bancarella Prize is the booksellers' prize and it is awarded to good books with good sales numbers. Past winners include Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak and Isaac Singer among the foreign authors and Umberto Eco, Andrea Camilleri and Gianrico

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The Spanish edition of Federico Moccia's Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (Sorry, I'm calling you Love) shoots up to no. 4 of the fiction chart.As the Moccia phenomenon is spreading in Spain, Perdona si te Llamo Amor keeps attracting the attention of the media.Check out this article and the video.

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Davide Longo's Il Mangiatore di Pietre (The Stone Eater) has been welcomed with rave reviews by the Dutch press.- Trouw, 9th February 2008, Ronald de Rooy:Davide Longo's second novel, De Steen Eter, is a surprising combination between a noir and a full picture of a small and remote town in the mountains of Northern Italy. The most beautiful element of the book is the subtlety of this grafting. ..

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After winning the Cala di Volpe Literary Prize in 2005 with Stojan Decu, l'altro uomo (Stojan Decu, the Other Man), Simone Perotti will soon be out with his new novel.L'estate del disincanto (The Summer of Disenchantment) will be published by Bompiani on April 1st 2008 with this beautiful cover.Translation righs handled by Bompiani.

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After only one month from its publication with Editorial Planeta, Perdona si te Llamo Amor, the Spanish edition of Scusa ma ti chiamo Amore by Federico Moccia, climbs up the Spanish fiction chart to reach no. 7.After selling almost 900,000 copies in less than a year in Italy, the book is now at its second edition in Spain, with Planeta having sold out a first print-run of 50,000

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Federica Bosco's new book, 101 Modi di Trovare il tuo Principe Azzurro (Senza Dover Baciare Tutti i Rospi), has sold 60,000 copies in less than three months after its publication with Newton Compton. Her previous titles, Mi piaci da morire (which is about to become a movie), Cercasi amore disperatamente and L’amore non fa per me, have sold over 150,000 and have been translated into several

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The movie Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (Sorry, I'm calling you Love), directed by the best-selling author Federico Moccia and based on his latest novel, hit €12,600,000 box office sales 16 days after it came out on January 25th 2008. Check out the trailer! Translation rights handled by Kylee Doust Agency.

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After its success in Germany (12,000 copies sold) Davide Longo's Il Mangiatore di Pietre (The Stone Eater) has recently been published in Dutch by De Geus. This delicately intense noir has been welcomed by the press as a five star novel:Davide Longo is the rising star of the Italian literary firmament ... It is a splendid book ... In the future we will still hear a lot about Davide

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Federico Moccia's number one Italian bestseller SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE has just been published in Spain by Planeta International with the title PERDONA SI TE LLAMO AMOR. It has jumped straight on to the bestseller lists, with featured articles so far in EL PAIS, LA VANGUARDIA, GLAMOUR and QUE LEER.Check out the great video that Planeta filmed in Rome while visiting Moccia in December...

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Andrea Canobbio's beautifully written THE NATURAL DISORDER OF THINGS is one of the first novels to be published under the new Maclehose imprint. With a revised translation for the UK market Christopher MacLehose has added Andrea to his prestigious list of translated fiction.The novel was immediately acclaimed in a lovely article in THE INDEPENDENT by journalist Boyd Tonkin who described THE

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In a pre-Christmas offer Flammarion has acquired the French translation rights for Andrej Longo's wonderfully poignant work of fiction DIECI. Flammarion has successfully published other such Italian authors as Melania Mazzucco and Salvatore Niffoi.The rights for the Galician Language were also bought by Rinoceronte.Translation rights handled by Adelphi.

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Newton Compton has just published 101 MODI PER RICONOSCERE IL TUO PRINCIPE AZZURRO (SENZA DOVER BACIARE TUTTI I ROSPI), a sometimes serious, sometimes comical manual for finding love, written by Federica Bosco.101 MODI PER RICONOSCERE IL TUO PRINCIPE AZZURRO contains 101 precious pieces of advice mostly tried and tested by Federica herself! Translation rights handled

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"It is 1943, in Southern Sicily. The Americans have landed and three teenagers, two boys and a girl, must escape from their fishing village where they grew up. Their only choice is to steal the boat of Il Corsaro, the local pirate and smuggler.They will have to face their fears as well as the anger of the sea and il Corsaro. They will risk everything just to find love, death and to hope again.It

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Following his critically acclaimed novel IL NATURALE DISORDINE DELLE COSE Andrea Canobbio has published a haunting and evocative work with nottetempo entitled PRESENTIMENTO."Canobbio's is a sincerity which seduces and unsettles, in a pratically perfect measure of style and elegance." Stefano Giovanardi, la RepubblicaSome times it happens that your deepest desires and fears can suddenly come to

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Giorgio Scianna, author of the original and lyrical novel FAI DI TE LA NOTTE has won the prestigious PREMIO GIOVANNI COMISSO (Jean Echenoz the winner of the non-fiction category).With two editions, FAI DI TE LA NOTTE published by Einaudi in May 2007 is a surprising first novel. It tells the story of Clara as she first discovers then comes to terms with the fact that her husband has betrayed her.

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DIECI by Andrej Longo has just come out with Adelphi. With a first print run of 20,000 copies his novel has already been compared to a Neapolitan version of Raymond Chandler, or of Moravia's "Roman tales" or a poetic view of Gomorra...DIECI are ten commandments, ten stories with just one main character Naples.Heartbreaking and poetic, evocative, at times funny Andrej Longo's language hits home

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"LA PASSEGGIATA" was first published in conjuction with the daily paper IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA as part of a collection of short works "CORTI DI CARTA" by famous Italian authors, each costing €1.00 (on left). In this one-off edition it sold over 100,000 copies.Demand and interest in the book was such that Rizzoli re-released it for Christmas in an elegant BUR paperback edition at €4.00, with a

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On January 28th 2008 PLANETA SPAIN will publish Moccia's bestselling novel SCUSA MA TI CHIAMO AMORE (over 800,000 copies sold in Italy).PERDONA SI TE LLAMO AMOR will be at the centre of a huge marketing campaign which includes an exclusive weekend for three important journalists in Rome who will tour the city following the itinerary of Moccia's novel.It will also be published in Catalan at the

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German rights have been sold to Rororo which will publish in April, 2007 with the title Der Schatten einer Liebe.A perfect summer read!

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Lengua de Trapo (Madrid, Spain) has just published Palmese's haunting, beautiful love story L'AMANTE PROIBITA set between Naples and a mysterious Greek Island.Un viaje mítico y una tormentosa historia de pareja.La amante prohibida es la historia de Carlo, un hombre-niño, destinado a desvelar todas las incógnitas que le acechan y que le han mantenido al margen del mundo, incapaz de asumir la

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Goldmann (Random House) has published MI PIACI DA MORIRE by Federica Bosco with the German title Ein Mann für gewisse Sünden:Der erfolgreichste italienische „Chick-lit“-Roman des letzten Jahres. Monica ist einunddreißig und chronischer Single. Alle Versuche, diesem Zustand abzuhelfen, endeten bisher regelmäßig in der Katastrophe. Zum einen, weil Monica bei den Treffen mit diversen Männern niemals

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A 3rd edition for Hamid Ziarati's delightful debut novel SALAM MAMAN with 9,000 copies sold. A successful little long seller this heartwarming debut novel set in Teheran before and after the revoltion has also won two more literary awards: “Premio Rhegium Julii 2006” and “Premio Fortunato Seminara – Opera Prima 2006”.Hamid is currently writing his second novel.Further information in links below:

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Wagenbach has just published Davide Longo's novel "Il mangiatore di Pietre" with the title DER STEINGÄNGER.Dieses erstaunliche und geheimnisvolle Buch eines jungen italienischen Autors handelt von Menschen, die zu uns kommen, und anderen, die dort bleiben wollen, wo sie sind. In einem piemontesischen Tal wird ein Mann umgebracht. Cesare gilt als Hauptverdächtiger für den Mord an Fausto, ein

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Davide Longo's critically acclaimed second novel IL MANGIATORE DI PIETRE ("The Stone Eater") has been bought for translation by Wagenbach in Germany and De Geus in The Netherlands.A success in Italy, selling 10,000 copies with the small independant publisher Marcos y Marcos, Davide Longo is considered one of Italy's most talented young writers, and Wagenbach and De Geus naturally agree!The film

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In an extraordinary result for a debut novel as well as a first time for the Independent Publisher Newton Compton, Massimiliano Palmese came third in the Premio Strega, up against Sandro Veronesi (published by Bompiani) and Rossana Rossanda (published by Einaudi).Photo: Massimiliano Palmese, Pietro Grossi, Sandro Veronesi & Sergio de Santis.Other information in these links:☛ "THE FORBIDDEN LOVER

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