User:Francesco verso

Biography
Graduated in Environmental Economics at Università degli studi Roma Tre in 2001, he started his professional career in IBM. In 2008 he quit the IT business to devote himself to full time writing. He had started writing in 1996; first a poem collection, and then a novel: Antidoti umani (Human Antidotes), finalist at the Premio Urania (Mondadori) in 2004. But it was his second novel, e-Doll. who marked his success with the Urania Mondadori Award in 2009. His third book Livido (Livid), a dark fantasy novel was finished in 2010. In 2011 he wrote BloodBusters, a contemporary fiction novel, and started a fifth one - I Camminatori (The Walkers). Presently, beside writing, Francesco Verso co-operates with on-line magazines and co-directs a collection of e-books, called Avatar for the Kipple Officina Libraria. He works for the fanzine NeXT and with Kipple Officina Libraria as co-editor of the fantastic literature book series Avatar.

Works

 * Novels
 * Human Antidotes, Edizioni Diversa Sintonia, 2009, (finalista Premio Urania Mondadori 2004)
 * e-Doll, Mondadori, 2009 (winner of Premio Urania Mondadori 2008)
 * Human Antidotes, Kipple Officina Libraria, 2011, e-book, (short listed at 2004 Premio Urania Mondadori)
 * Livido, Delos Books, 2013,, Winner of Odyssey Award 2012.


 * Short Stories
 * La spirale del silenzio, in Robot 58, Delosbooks, 2009
 * Flush, Kipple, Avatar eCaspule 3, 2010
 * Flush, iComics nr. 4, Kawama Editoriale, december 2010
 * Sogno di un futuro di mezza estate, Kipple, Avatar eCaspule 7, 2011
 * Italianski, tikaj, tikaj, in Scritto... e Mangiato: racconti di vita e di sapori, Premio Racconto Bonsai 2011, Giulio Perrone LAB, Roma, 2011
 * La morte in diretta di Fernando Morales, Graphe.it, eTales, 2011

Awards

 * 2004 - Short listed at Urania Mondadori Award with Antidoti umani
 * 2008 - Honorable mention at Premio di Poesia Internazionale Mario Luzi
 * 2009 - Winner of Urania Mondadori Award with e-Doll
 * 2011 - Winner of Italia Award, with Sandro Battisti, for best fanzine NeXT -
 * 2013 - Winner of Odyssey Award by Delos Books with Livido