Franco Bernini author biography, plus links to books by Franco Bernini.

Franco Bernini

Franco Bernini's screenplay for The Grey Zone won the Grolla d'oro Prize for best screenplay at the 50th Cannes Film Festival.w. He teaches screenwriting at the Italian National Film School. He has written three novels and a collection of short stories. The Throne is his English-language debut.

Oonagh Stransky has been a translator of Italian literature for over 20 years. Some of the writers whose work she has brought into English include Domenico Starnone (The House on Via Gemito, Europa), Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carlo Lucarelli, Giuseppe Pontiggia, and Roberto Saviano. Stransky started studying Italian at Middlebury Language Schools in 1986, got her BA in Comparative Literature from Mills College and UC Berkeley in 1989, and her MA in Italian from Columbia University in 2002. She currently lives in Italy.

This biography was last updated on 06/11/2024.

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