Paola Mastrocola

Paola Mastrocola was born in Turin, where she lives and worked as a teacher in high school. She began her literary career as a poet and essayist, writing mainly about Fourteenth-Century and Sixteenth-Century Italian Literature. Her debut novel La gallina volante was published in 2000 and won the Premio Calvino. She was shortlisted for Premio Strega in 2001 for Palline di pane and won Premio Campiello in 2004 with Una barca nel bosco. She is the author of La scuola raccontata al mio cane (2004), Che animale sei? (2005), Più lontana della luna (2007), La felicità del galleggiante (2010), Togliamo il disturbo. Saggio sulla libertà di non studiare (2011), Non so niente di te (2013), L’esercito delle cose inutili (2015, Premio letterario Basilicata), La passione ribelle (2015), L’anno che non caddero le foglie (2016), L’amore prima di noi (2016), Leone (2018), Diario di una talpa (2020), La saggezza del lupo (2020), Se tu fossi vero (2021), Il danno scolastico (con Luca Ricolfi, 2021), Manifesto del libero pensiero (con Luca Ricolfi, 2022), La memoria del cielo (2023), La luna va al cinema (2023). Paola Mastrocola’s books have been widely translated abroad. Her last work is Il dio del fuoco (2024).

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The Fire God 22 October 2024
The moon goes to the movies 25 April 2023
The memory of the sky 14 February 2023
Freethought Manifesto 31 March 2022
In alto l'Aspidistra - Foreword 22 February 2022
The Scholastic Damage 14 October 2021
If you were real 20 May 2021
The wisdom of the wolf 22 October 2020
Diary of a Mole 9 July 2020
The happiness of the floater 25 October 2018
Leone 16 October 2018
The Love Before Us 18 October 2016
The year the leaves did not fall 21 April 2016
Rebellious passion 10 September 2015
The Army of Useless Things 17 February 2015
A boat in the woods 16 January 2014
And if wolves brood 29 August 2013
I Know Nothing of You 1 March 2013
What animal are you? 1 January 2013

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