Domenico Starnone, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Domenico Starnone

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1943

Place of Birth: Saviano, Campania, Italy

Profession: screenwriter, writer, journalist

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Domenico Starnone (born 1943) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and journalist. Born in Saviano, near Naples, he has worked for several newspapers and satirical magazines, including L'Unità, Il Manifesto, Tango, and Cuore, usually about episodes of his life as a high school teacher.
He also works as screenwriter. The movies La scuola (by Daniele Luchetti) and Denti (by Gabriele Salvatores) are based on his books. One of his fictional books is Via Gemito, which won the Premio Strega in 2001.
It was suggested in 2006 that the mysterious writer Elena Ferrante, author of L'amore molesto and I giorni dell'abbandono, is Starnone himself. Starnone is married to Anita Raja, the literary translator who was said to be the author Elena Ferrante in a report by the Italian investigative journalist Claudio Gatti in 2016.