Alessandro Baricco

Alessandro Baricco (b.1958) is a philosophy graduate from Turin and a multifaceted writer, playwright, scriptwriter and television populariser. He wrote many novels in the 1990s: Castelli di rabbia (Rizzoli, 1991), Ocean Sea (Canongate), Silk (Harivill Press), City (Vintage), as well as the theatrical monologue Novecento (Oberon Books), adapted for cinema by Giuseppe Tornatore in 1998. In the following decade, he gradually shifted his focus towards non-fiction, publishing The Barbarians: An Essay on the Mutation of Culture (e-book: Rizzoli New York, Kindle), The Game (Mc Sweeney's) and Quel che stavamo cercando (Feltrinelli, 2021). In 2023, Feltrinelli published Abel. In 1994, he founded the Holden School in Turin, where writing, storytelling and performing arts are taught. Latest work translated to German: The Game (Hoffmann und Campe, 2019).