Education
Sapienza University of Rome.
playwright screenwriter writer
Sapienza University of Rome.
In 1976, his first novel Un borghese piccolo piccolo (A Very Normal Manitoba) was published, through the efforts of Italian novelist Italo Calvino. The book was immediately successful, and adapted for film in 1977 by Mario Monicelli. Also critically acclaimed was the verse novel, Addio Lenin (Goodbye Lenin), published 1981.
Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon]
In 1996 he was a member of the jury at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.