Paolo Giordano

Paolo Giordano was born in Turin in 1982. He graduated in physics and is author of four novels: La solitudine dei numeri primi (Mondadori, 2008; which won the Strega Award and the Campiello Opera Prima Award ), Il corpo umano (Mondadori 2012), Il nero e l’argento (Einaudi, 2014) Divorare il cielo (Einaudi, 2018) and Tasmania (Einaudi, 2022 Lettura Award). He also wrote the essays Nel contagio (Einaudi, 2020) and Le cose che non voglio dimenticare (Einaudi, 2021). He wrote film scripts (Siccità and We Are Who We Are) and theatre pièces (Galois and Fine pena: ora). He collaborates with Il Corriere della Sera.
ph. credits: Pierluca Esposito