Giosuè Calaciura

Giosuè Calaciura is an Italian writer. He was born in Palermo in 1960. A career journalist, he writes regularly for many daily newspapers and magazines. He also writes for the theatre and radio.

His debut novel Malacarne was published in 1998. Other works include:

Sgobbo (2002) La figlia perduta. La favola dello Slum (2005) Urbi et Orbi (2006) Bambini e altri animali (short stories, 2013) Pantelleria (2016) Borgo Vecchio (2017) - Premio Marco Polo Venise 2019, Prix Mediterranée 2020 Il tram di Natale (2018) - Premio Presidi del Libro “Alessandro Leogrande” 2019 Io sono Gesù (2021) Una notte (2022)

Calaciura lives and works in Rome.

Biography His father was Palermo journalist Anselmo Calaciura, and his mother, Grazia Cianetti, a poet and teacher. A journalist for L'Ora of Palermo, when the newspaper closed (1992) he opened the restaurant “Le mura dell'Itria,” frequented by many journalists and writers, including Goffredo Fofi.