Fabio Genovesi was born in Forte dei Marmi in 1974 and still lives there.
He has published the essay Morte dei Marmi for Laterza, the novels Versilia Rock City, Esche Vive, Chi Manda le Onde (Premio Strega Giovani 2015), Il Mare dove non si tocca (2018), Rolando del camposanto (2019), Cadrò, sognando di volare (2020) for Mondadori, Tutti primi sul traguardo del mio cuore (2019) for Soferino and Il calamaro gigante (2021) for Feltrinelli.
In 2019 he edited the anthology Tales of Darkness for Einaudi.
His latest novel is Pure Gold (Mondadori, 2023).
He does not like biographies.
Palos, Spain, August 1492. Nuno is 16 years old, and he is a crab. Or at least that is the nickname given to him by his mother, who died a few months earlier and of whom Nuño retains a memory that is both pain and light. Although living by the sea, Nuño never wished to plough it…
You know when the radio plays the song you always listened to in high school, and you imagined yourself in the future, free and happy to do whatever you wanted–well, if hearing it makes your heart clench and you eventually have to change the station, it means that in that future something didn’t go the way you dreamed.
Who doesn’t know fear? Every era has its nightmares, but every nightmare-for those who live it-is the most frightening of all. Terror stories are whispered in the dark, where imagination reigns unquestioned with all its mysteries. For this, Fabio Genovesi stepped into the period…
Rolando lives in the cemetery, together with his uncle who is a caretaker. He leaves only to go to school, where his classmates avoid him, and he has no friends except a blackbird named Cip. When cousins Marika and Mirko Gini appear among the gravestones one day, Rolando finds two friends from his…
For thousands of miles, by car, on foot, on ferries, buses and cable cars, a caravan full of color tries to keep up with the furious pace set by the cyclists who in three weeks tour all of Italy, from the Amalfi coast to the rugged contours of Vajont….
