Giuseppe Catozzella

Giuseppe Catozzella was born in Milan in 1976. He has taught Italian literature and creative writing at the University of Miami and at Seton Hall University in New York. He is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR. His investigative novel Alveare (Rizzoli, 2011; later Feltrinelli, 2014) was adapted into the TV film L’assalto, produced by Rai Fiction. His longseller Non dirmi che hai paura (Feltrinelli, 2014) – winner of the Premio Strega Giovani, finalist for the Premio Strega and for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – has sold nearly 800,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into over thirty countries. The novel was also adapted into a film of the same name, which won the Special Mention for Best International Film at the 2024 Tribeca Festival and the International Audience Award at the Munich Festival. Non dirmi che hai paura, along with Il grande futuro (Feltrinelli, 2016) and E tu splendi (Feltrinelli, 2018, a bestseller that sold 100,000 copies in Italy), forms part of the Trilogia dell’Altro. With Mondadori he published Italiana in 2021. His most recent novel is Il fiore delle illusioni, published by Feltrinelli in 2024.