BIOGRAPHY

He was born on the 2^nd of May in 1977.His parents are Rita and Giuseppe, he is thethird of six children.

He attended the liceo classico Vittorio Emanuele II di Palermo, where he met Pino Puglisi the religion’s teacher.

Pino Puglisi and his Italian teacher influenced  him very much. In 2000 he got a graduate in Italian at Sapienza di Roma. He won the PhD in Siena, that he completed in 2004 with a thesis about marmeids of “Omero”. In the same time he teached at a secondary  school. Then he did a course to teach in liceo.

Now he is an Italian teacher at a liceo classico. He founded amateur theatre company.

His writing activity starts with his teaching  activity.

The novel “Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue” was publishe in 2010.

In 2011 was published the novel “Cose che nessuno sa”.

He has been publishing some Italian  newspapers’ (Avvenire, la Stampa).

In 2011 - 2012 he worked at the producing of  the film “Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue”, produced by Rai Cinema that comes in the cinema in 2013.

In 2014 he has published his third novel “Ciò che inferno non è”.

On the 31^st of October 2016 he has published his forth novel “L’arte di essere fragili”.

1. Why did you start to teach Italian at school?
2.  Why did you start to write novels?
3.  Why did you choose colore white and colore red?
4.  Why did you choose name Beatrice?
5.  What relationship do you have with your pupils?
6.  What’s your ispiration when you write a novel?
7.  Why did you arrange the chapters of you first novel  so?
8.  Why did you always write about teenagers?
9.  What’s your favourite novel?
10.  Who’s your favourite novelist?