Francesca Melandri

Francesca Melandri (born 9 June 1964 in Rome) is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Più alto del mare in 2012.

The novel, which won several literary prizes in 2010 and 2011, was translated into English by Katherine Gregor (2016),[2] as well as into German, Dutch and French.

It won several prizes, including the National Literary Award for Female Writers (Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice),[3] and was nominated for the Premio Campiello.

[4] In March 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, her Lettera dall'Italia, originally published in The Guardian,[5] Libération,[6] and Der Spiegel,[7] was translated into many languages.