Francesca Melandri

One of the most prominent Italian writers, a well-known screenwriter of films and documentaries on Italian television. The author of three novels, the first of which Eva Sleeps (2010) received a number of national awards. The novel about southern Tyrol, about language and other issues that divided families. It was thanks to the debut book that the writer’s fame went beyond the boundaries of Italy.

Books in Ukrainian: In Ukrainian, the novel Eva Sleeps was published in the Nora-Druk publishing house in 2017, translated by Mariana Prokopovych.