Francesco Piccolo is an Italian author of novels, short stories and screen plays.

Piccolo was born at Caserta

Caserta

Caserta is the capital of the province of Caserta in the Campania region of Italy. It is an important agricultural, commercial and industrial comune and city. Caserta is located on the edge of the Campanian plain at the foot of the Campanian Subapennine mountain range...

. His novels and short story collections include Allegro occidentale, E se c'ero dormivo, Il tempo imperfetto, and Storie di primogeniti e figli unici (all published by Feltrinelli); l'Italia spensierata (Laterza); and La separazione del maschio (Einaudi). With Storie di primogeniti e figli unici he won two literary prizes: the Premio Giuseppe Berto and the Premio letterario Piero Chiara.

In the cinema he has worked on screenplays for My Name is Tanino

My Name is Tanino

My Name is Tanino is a 2002 comedy film directed by Paolo Virzì. The picaresque plot is about Tanino, an Italian liberal arts student who falls in love with a young American tourist met in Sicily and decides to track her down in the United States....

, Paz! (based on cartoons by Andrea Pazienza

Andrea Pazienza

Andrea Pazienza , was an Italian comics artist and painter.- Life :Pazienza was born in San Benedetto del Tronto, province of Ascoli Piceno , in 1956....

), Ovunque sei, Il caimano (for which he, Nanni Moretti

Nanni Moretti

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.-Life and work:Moretti was born in Bruneck, South Tyrol , in 1953 to parents who were teachers...

 and Federica Pontremoli were awarded the 2006 David di Donatello

David di Donatello

David di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...

 for Best Script

David di Donatello for Best Script

-1976:*Alberto Bevilacqua & Nino Manfredi - Attenti al buffone-1977:*Leo Benvenuti & Piero De Bernardi - La stanza del vescovo-1981:*Tonino Guerra & Francesco Rosi - Tre fratelli-1982:...

), Nemmeno in un sogno, Caos calmo (in which he also made an appearance) and Giorni e nuvole.

He has also written for newspapers and periodicals, including la Repubblica

La Repubblica

la Repubblica is an Italian daily general-interest newspaper. Founded in 1976 in Rome by the journalist Eugenio Scalfari, as of 2008 is the second largest circulation newspaper, behind the Corriere della Sera.-Foundation:...

and Diario

Diario (magazine)

Diario was an Italian magazine, founded on 23 October 1996 by Enrico Deaglio, Luca Formenton and Amato Mattia as a weekly linked to the daily newspaper l'Unità...

. Piccolo lives in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

, where he runs the screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

s laboratory for the DAMS

DAMS

Driot-Arnoux Motorsport is a racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsports. DAMS was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula One driver René Arnoux. It is headquartered near Le Mans, only 2 km from the Bugatti Circuit.- History :The year after its foundation,...

 course at Roma Tre.

External links

• Maria Agostinelli, ‘Francesco Piccolo: tra cinema e narrativa’, RaiLibro.