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Francesco Verso
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Francesco
Verso |
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Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Occupation: |
writer, translator, publisher |
| Nationality: |
Italian |
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Biography
Francesco Verso was born in Bologna in 1973. His first novel, Human Antidotes, was finalist at Urania-Mondadori Award. In 2009 he won the Urania-Mondadori Award with e-Doll. In 2013 he won the Odyssey Award by Delos Books with Livido (also Cassiopea and Italy Award for best SF novel). He wrote short stories such as Flush, 90 Cents, Two Worlds and Fernando Morales, This is Your Death!. With his fourth book "Bloodbusters" he won his second Urania Mondadori Award (ex-aequo with Sandro Battisti). He has written a fifth book "The Pulldogs", which is the first part of a project called "The Walkers". He's writing the second part, whose title is "No/Mad/Land".
After being co-editor of "Avatar" book series by Kipple Officina Libraria, in 2014 he started the Future Fiction project, dealing with multicultural scouting from English and non-English speaking countries with the ambition of putting together the masterpieces of contemporary speculative fiction genre. Future Fiction deals also with multimedia projects ranging from digital books, performative arts and audio/video installations.
Francesco Verso's stories have been translated in Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese, on top of being represented on stage in the SF show The Milky Way and sold abroad on International Speculative Fiction #5 and The Chicago Quarterly Review #20. Livid (aka Nexhuman in 2nd edition) has been published in Australia by Xoum Publishing in 2014.
He lives in Rome with his wife and daughter.
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