Ristretto price

Paolo Giordano is one of the leading voices in contemporary Italian literature. A novelist with a scientific background, he is the author of five novels: La Solitude des nombres premiers, Le Corps humain, Dévorer le ciel, Les Humeurs insolubles and Tasmania, published in France in September 2023 by Editions le Bruit du Monde. More recently, he edited the anthology Da vicino. Raccontare la guerra oggi. He is the youngest winner of the prestigious Strega Prize, which he won in 2008 for La Solitude des nombres premiers. The book has been translated into over forty languages and adapted for the cinema. He also writes for Corriere della Sera.

Filmmaker and actress Valentine Cadic studied cinema at the University of Paris 8. During her studies, she appeared in the films Avaby Léa Mysius, and Our battlesby Guillaume Senez, both of which premiered at the Semaine de la Critique. A founding member of Les Filmeuses, an association for the production and distribution of creative short films, created in 2020, she shot her first short film the same year, Omaha Beach. In 2022, it will Les Grandes Vacancespresented in national competition at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, and completed his graduation film, La nuit n’en finit pluspresented at Côté Court. She went on to shoot her first feature, Summer Rendezvouswhich is partly set during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Selected for numerous festivals (Berlinale, Busan, Shanghai,...