Paolo Giordano

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Paolo Giordano.

Paolo Giordano (born 1982) is an Italian writer who won the Premio Strega literary award with his first novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers.

Biography

Paolo Giordano was born in December 19, 1982, in Turin, Italy. He studied physics at the University of Turin and holds a PhD in theoretical particle physics. The Solitude of Prime Numbers, his first novel, has sold over a million copies and was translated into thirty languages.

The Italian language film based on the novel was released in September 2010.

Bibliography

2008: The Solitude of Prime Numbers (published in Italian as La solitudine dei numeri primi)
2012: The Human Body (published in Italian as Il corpo umano)
2014: Like Family (published in Italian as Il nero e l'argento)

Awards

2008: Strega Prize (The Solitude of Prime Numbers)
2008: Premio Campiello for a first novel (The Solitude of Prime Numbers)

External links

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Audio: Paolo Giordano in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion programme The Forum

Recipients of the Strega Prize

Ennio Flaiano (1947)
Vincenzo Cardarelli (1948)
Giovanni Battista Angioletti (1949)
Cesare Pavese (1950)
Corrado Alvaro (1951)
Alberto Moravia (1952)
Massimo Bontempelli (1953)
Mario Soldati (1954)
Giovanni Comisso (1955)
Giorgio Bassani (1956)
Elsa Morante (1957)
Dino Buzzati (1958)
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1959)
Carlo Cassola (1960)
Raffaele La Capria (1961)
Mario Tobino (1962)
Natalia Ginzburg (1963)
Giovanni Arpino (1964)
Paolo Volponi (1965)
Michele Prisco (1966)
Anna Maria Ortese (1967)
Alberto Bevilacqua (1968)
Lalla Romano (1969)
Guido Piovene (1970)
Raffaello Brignetti (1971)
Giuseppe Dessì (1972)
Manlio Cancogni (1973)
Guglielmo Petroni (1974)
Tommaso Landolfi (1975)
Fausta Cialente (1976)
Fulvio Tomizza (1977)
Ferdinando Camon (1978)
Primo Levi (1979)
Vittorio Gorresio (1980)
Umberto Eco (1981)
Goffredo Parise (1982)
Mario Pomilio (1983)
Pietro Citati (1984)
Carlo Sgorlon (1985)
Maria Bellonci (1986)
Stanislao Nievo (1987)
Gesualdo Bufalino (1988)
Giuseppe Pontiggia (1989)
Sebastiano Vassalli (1990)
Paolo Volponi (1991)
Vincenzo Consolo (1992)
Domenico Rea (1993)
Giorgio Montefoschi (1994)
Mariateresa Di Lascia (1995)
Alessandro Barbero (1996)
Claudio Magris (1997)
Enzo Siciliano (1998)
Dacia Maraini (1999)
Ernesto Ferrero (2000)
Domenico Starnone (2001)
Margaret Mazzantini (2002)
Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2003)
Ugo Riccarelli (2004)
Maurizio Maggiani (2005)
Sandro Veronesi (2006)
Niccolò Ammaniti (2007)
Paolo Giordano (2008)
Tiziano Scarpa (2009)
Antonio Pennacchi (2010)
Edoardo Nesi (2011)
Alessandro Piperno (2012)
Walter Siti (2013)
Francesco Piccolo (2014)
Nicola Lagioia (2015)
Edoardo Albinati (2016)

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