Francesca melandri biography

Francesca Melandri is an Italian novelist, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker.

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

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Francesca Melandri

Eva dorme

4.01 avg rating — 1,982 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions

Alle, außer mir
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4.06 avg rating — 1,422 ratings — published 2017 — 17 editions

Più alto del mare

3.84 avg rating — 704 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions

Kalte Füße
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4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings — 2 editions

Extraits gratuits - Lectures d'été Gallimard 2015
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015

Amore! Liebesgeschichten
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2019

Giochi d'Amore: Attività Divertenti per Consolidare il Vostro Rapporto di Coppia
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Nord & Süd 2012: Leben, Arbeit, Wirtschaft in Südtirol
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Francesca Melandri

Biography

Francesca Melandri was born in Rome in 1964. She worked as a screenwriter, contributing to the Adalbert Stifter adaptation »Bergkristall«, the fairy tale epic »Fantaghirò« based on Italo Calvino, and the popular TV series »Don Matteo« featuring Terrence Hill in the titular role. She also directed the documentary »Vera« (2010), about a Holocaust survivor who was the only member of her large family from Zagreb to escape extermination and who now, in her old age, devotes herself to breeding thoroughbreds near Rome. Her debut novel »Eva dorme« (2010; Eng. »Eva Sleeps«, 2016) is set in South Tyrol, where Melandri spent many years. When the protagonist’s long-lost stepfather requests a final meeting as he lays dying, she travels from Bolzano to Reggio Calabria at the southernmost tip of Italy’s boot. During the journey, she reflects on the life of her single mother and the tumultuous history of the Alto Adige region. Through these reflections, she reveals the profound influence that ongoing political conflict had on intimate relationships and even the language used among each other, highlighting the empowerment and perseverance of a self-reliant woman. Her novel »Più alto del mare« (2012; tr: Higher Than the Sea ) reveals the existential si