Chiara Barzini (born 1979) is an Italian writer known for her semi-autobiographical novel Things that Happened Before the Earthquake set in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
[2] Barzini has worked as a writer on films, including collaborating with Ginevra Elkann on both If Only (Magari) and I Told You So (Te l’avevo detto).
She has written short stories and magazine articles, and in 2017 published her first novel, Things that Happened Before the Earthquake, a coming of age roman a clef narrative set in the San Fernando Valley in the early 1990s.
[2][1][3][4] The novel, which received positive reviews from newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times[5] and Vogue,[3] is currently being adapted as a film by Robert Zemeckis.
[7] In 2019 Barzini won the San Fernando Valley Award for Fiction from the Friends of the Library at California State University, Northridge.