Francesco Piccolo

Francesco Piccolo (born 1964) is an Italian author of novels, short stories and screen plays.

In 2014, he won Italy's leading literary award the Premio Strega for Il desiderio di essere come tutti.

His novels and short story collections include Allegro occidentale, E se c'ero dormivo, Il tempo imperfetto, and Storie di primogeniti e figli unici (all published by Feltrinelli); l'Italia spensierata (Laterza); Momenti di trascurabile felicita and La separazione del maschio (Einaudi).

(based on cartoons by Andrea Pazienza), Ovunque sei, Il caimano (for which he, Nanni Moretti and Federica Pontremoli were awarded the 2006 David di Donatello for Best Script), Nemmeno in un sogno, Caos calmo (in which he also made an appearance[2]) and Giorni e nuvole.

Piccolo lives in Rome, where he runs the screenwriters laboratory for the DAMS course at Roma Tre.