Nadia Terranova

Nadia Terranova (born 1 January 1978) is an Italian author.

Life and career
Born in Messina, Terranova graduated in philosophy at the University of Messina, and then got a doctorate in modern history at the University of Catania. In 2003 she moved to Rome, where she started her activity as a writer as the author of children books. Her debut novel Gli anni al contrario ("The years in reverse", 2015) got her critical appraise and several awards including the Bagutta Prize for best first work and the Premio Brancati. The book was selected by La Repubblica as one of the best Italian books of the 2010s decade.

Terranova's second novel Farewell, Ghosts (Italian: Addio fantasmi, 2018) was a finalist at the 2019 Strega Prize, losing to Antonio Scurati's M. It also won several awards, including the and, and Corriere della Sera ranked it sixth on their 2018 best books list.

Terranova is also a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, an essayist, an author of short stories and a radio writer. In 2021 she made up her first graphic novel, Caravaggio e la ragazza, illustrated by Lelio Bonaccorso. The same year she was a jury member of the "Horizons" section at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.