Paolo Cognetti

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Paolo Cognetti
Born	27 January 1978 (1978-01-27) (age 46) Milan, Italy
Occupation	Writer
Awards	Subway-Letteratura, Premio Strega, Premio Médicis

Paolo Cognetti (born 27 January 1978 in Milan) is an Italian writer. He started studying mathematics at university, but quit to enroll at Milan's film-making school Civica Scuola di Cinema «Luchino Visconti», where he graduated in 1999. He taught himself American literature and started directing documentaries in 2004, especially about social, political and literary topics. His first work as a writer was the short story Fare ordine, which won the Premio Subway−Letteratura. He loves New York City, which has become the main subject of some of his documentaries. His other passion is the mountains, where he likes to spend a few months alone every year. In 2016, he published his first novel Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains, English translation by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre for Atria Books, 2018),^[1] which granted him the Premio Strega 2017, Italy′s most prestigious literary award, as well as various international awards, such as the Prix Médicis étranger, the Prix François Sommer, and the English Pen Translates Award.^[2]

• Fare ordine. [Genere: storia d'amore; 1 racconto da 5 fermate], Milan, 2003
• Manuale per ragazze di successo, Rome, 2004
• Una cosa piccola che sta per esplodere, Rome, 2007
• Sofia si veste sempre di nero, Rome, 2012
• Il nuotatore, with Mara Cerri, Rome, 2013
• Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), Turin, 2016^[3]
• La felicità del Lupo, Turin, Einaudi, 2021
• Giù nella valle, Turin, Einaudi, 2023

• Scrivere/New York, 2004

• New York è una finestra senza tende, 2010
• Il ragazzo selvatico. Quaderno di montagna, Milan, 2013
• A pesca nelle pozze più profonde, Roma, 2014
• Tutte le mie preghiere guardano verso ovest, 2014
• Senza mai arrivare in cima, Turin, Einaudi, 2018
• L'Antonia. Poesie, lettere e fotografie di Antonia Pozzi scelte e raccontate da Paolo Cognetti, Milan, Ponte alle Grazie, 2021.

• (in Italian)Sito casa editrice minimum fax, scheda di Paolo Cognetti.

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