Francesco Paolo Maria Di Salvia

Francesco Paolo Maria Di Salvia (born December 18, 1982)

Di Salvia worked for many years as a producer, writer, and director in the Italian cinema and TV industry.

He debuted at 19 with a range of award-winning short stories. He won the XXXII Sports Short Story of the Year Award, promoted by the Italian National Olympic Committee, and the Subway Literature, both in 2002. Di Salvia published his first novel, La circostanza, in 2015. The novel won the Special Prize at the XXVII edition of the Italo Calvino Prize and the 2015 Giuseppe Berto Prize. The book was included both in the 2015 Quality Ranking by Corriere della Sera and in the 2000-2019 Narrative Quality Ranking by L'indiscreto.

List of works Novels

Short stories Diario probabile di certi strani accadimenti che di tanto in tanto..., Milan, Subway-Letteratura, 2002.

Awards and nominations 2002 – Subway-Letteratura, for Diario probabile di certi strani accadimenti che di tanto in tanto... 2002 – Best Sports Short Story of the Year (Italian National Olympic Committee), for Leone Martini, terzino stagionale 2014 – Italo Calvino Prize, for La circostanza (Special Prize) 2015 – Giuseppe Berto Prize, for La circostanza

Credits Elezioni (2008) (director and writer) La cura (2011) (director and writer) Balla con noi (2011) (writer)