Paolo Colagrande
Paolo Colagrande (born in Piacenza, Italy, 1960) is the author of several novels, including Fideg, for which he won the Premio Campiello Opera Prima 2007 award, was a finalist at the Premio Viareggio 2007 and has been in the top ten Italian novels at the Festival du Roman of Cuneo-Chambery (2007); Kammerspiel (2008); Dioblù (2010); Senti le rane (2015), for which he won Premio Selezione Campiello 2015 award, and was a finalist at the Premio Sila. He is the author of numerous stories published in anthologies, magazines and Italian national newspapers. He is one of the founders and editors of the literary magazine L’Accalappiacani (2006-2009).