Antonio Franchini
Italy
Novelist, essayist and editor, Antonio Franchini was born in Naples in 1958 and lives and works in Milan. He made his fiction debut in 1992 with the short story collection Camerati. Quattro novelle sul diventare grandi (Bagutta First Work Prize), followed by numerous works up to Il fuoco che ti porti dentro (2024, selected for the Campiello Prize).
He was an editor of Italian fiction at Mondadori from 1991 to 2012, and then, until 2015, Director of Italian and Foreign Fiction. Since 2015 he has been the Editorial Director of Bompiani and Giunti Narrativa, and he has discovered and worked with many leading figures in contemporary Italian fiction.