writer and storyteller
The only Italian author in history to have received a Tony Award, the Oscar of the American theatre, (as well as winning both the Drama League Award 2022 and the Outer Critics Circle Award 2022)
Massini is a writer who has his distinctive feature in combining a strong literary streak with a strong flair as a live narrator.
With its narrative frescoes it “touches the heart and mind”, excites and makes us reflect, creating short circuits with a unique style.
The general Italian public discovered him with his refined and surprising interventions on television in Piazzapulita, and in other television programs, such as Ricomincio da Rai 3.
Since 2016 he has collaborated with the newspaper La Repubblica.
Pop popularizer, scathing, ironic, unsettling, far from the aura of the self-congratulatory and elitist intellectual, he is a composer and “decomposer” of words and stories, an investigator of everyday stories and states of mind.
His special ‘lessons’-stories about books in the talent show Amici made him known and appreciated even by the very young public.
His texts have been translated into 27 languages and staged from Broadway to the Comédie-Française, by directors such as Luca Ronconi or Oscar winner Sam Mendes.
Something about Lehman (Mondadori 2016) was one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years (Selezione Campiello prize, SuperMondello prize, De Sica prize, Prix Médicis Essai, Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger). His latest books are Dizionario inesistente (Mondadori 2018), Ladies Football Club (Mondadori 2019), Eichmann. Dove inizia la notte (Fandango 2020) and Survival Manual. Messaggi in bottiglia d’inizio millennio (Il Mulino 2021).
His new theatrical work, already being translated in many countries, is the monumental Manhattan Project, a theatrical fresco of over 5 hours on the birth of the atomic bomb, published in Italy by Einaudi (March 2023).
photo Marco Borrelli
