Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista (born in Choisy-le-Roi on 1 September 1961) is a French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita (as Badfellas for the 2010 English translation), which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media and EuropaCorp titled The Family, released on 13 September 2013 in North America. The novel Malavita was republished as The Family for a movie tie-in by Penguin Random House in 2013.

Novels Saga [fr], Éditions Gallimard, 1997 , Éditions Gallimard, 2001 Malavita [fr], Éditions Gallimard, 2004 , Éditions Gallimard, 2008 Homo erectus, Éditions Gallimard, 2011 Romanesque, Éditions Gallimard, 2016 Toutes les histoires d'amour ont été racontées, sauf une, Éditions Gallimard, 2020 Porca miseria, Éditions Gallimard, 2022 Tiré de faits irréels, Éditions Gallimard, 2025

Awards 1992 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Commedia des ratés 1998 Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for L'Outremangeur; Grand prix des lectrices de Elle for Saga, Éditions Gallimard 2001 César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation for Sur mes lèvres, shared with Jacques Audiard 2005 César Award for Best Adaptation, for The Beat That My Heart Skipped, shared with Jacques Audiard