Giuseppe Manfridi

Being water is the ambition of everything that is solid, maybe for nostalgia of all that we were in far-off times and that we would like to go back to being. Not the funereal earth. Every body is in itself nostalgia for the sea.

Giuseppe Manfridi

Giuseppe Manfridi, born in Rome, is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter.

He has been awarded important prizes such as the IDI Prize for best Italian newcomer in 1991. In 1991 he won the SIAE Prize.
In 2000, the comedy ‘Zozòs’, which already been produced in Italy by the Teatro dell’Elfo, was put on in London and directed by Sir Peter Hall, and repeated again in 2003 at the Barbican. In 2000 ‘Giacomo, il prepotente’ was staged at the Théatre du Rond-Point in Paris. He is short-listed for the Strega Prize for ‘Cronache dal paesaggio’ in 2007 and ‘La cuspide di ghiaccio’ in 2009 (both novels are published by Gremese)
Numerous degree theses are dedicated to his work.