Beatrice Salvioni

Born in Monza in 1995, she received a master’s degree in modern philology from the Catholic University of Milan with a thesis on interactive storytelling. She graduated from the “Writing” College of the Holden School in Turin and won the short story session “Beyond the Veil of Reality” of the Calvino Prize 2021. With her short stories she was also a winner of the Raduga 2021 “Knowing Eurasia” award and a finalist in the “8×8 you hear the voice” award. He practiced medieval fencing and climbed Mount Rosa. She relates that when she was nine years old, she put socks and apple juice in a backpack and ran away in search of adventure. The escape lasted until the home gate, but he has been writing stories ever since.
La Malnata is her first novel, published with Einaudi in 2023, which was followed by La Malacarne (Einaudi, 2024).

Malacarne

We are in Monza, in April 1940. For four years Francesca knows nothing more about Maddalena. Her friend has been locked up in an asylum, and has never answered the letters she has sent her.

The malnata

A teenage outcast, and a peer who gets to know her for real, beyond prejudice. And that thanks to her she finds the courage to make her voice, her truth, heard. An engaging coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of a Po Valley province oppressed by the control, sexism and violence of the Ventennio.