Tonino Benacquista ( French: Tonino Benacquista ; born September 1, 1961 in Choisy-le-Roi , a suburb of Paris ) is a French novelist and screenwriter.
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| Date of Birth | September 1, 1961 (58 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Choisy-le-Roi , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
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| Language of Works | French |
Born in a family of Italian immigrants. From childhood he became interested in literature and cinema . He worked as a night watchman in the museum, the conductor of the train "Paris-Rome", as a decorator. He drew inspiration from his work for his future novels.
He published his first novel at the age of 24. Subsequent works were awarded several literary prizes. The most successful was his novel The Saga (1997), for which Benaquista was named the author of the year by readers of Elle magazine .
He started writing scripts for television series back in the late 1980s, but Benakvist became a real success as a screenwriter in 2002 , when he, along with Jacques Odiar, received the César Award for the screenplay of the film “ Read on the Lips ”.
Screenwriter
- 1999 - The State of Panic / La Débandade
- 2001 - Lips Read / Sur mes lèvres
- 2005 - My heart stopped beating / De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté
Novels
- Epinglé comme une pin-up dans un placard de GI (Fleuve Noir, 1985)
- The Hunt for the Hare (La Maldonne des sleepings, 1989)
- Three red squares on a black background (Trois carrés rouges sur fond noir, 1990)
- The Comedy of Losers (La Commedia des ratés, 1991)
- Bites of the Dawn (Les Morsures de l'aube, 1992)
- The Saga (1997)
- Meat grinder for little girls (La Machine à broyer les petites filles, 1999)
- Glutton (L'Outremangeur, 2000)
- Someone Else (Quelqu'un d'autre, 2001)
- Everything for the ego (Tout à l'égo, 2001)
- Malavita (Malavita, 2004)
- Malavita-2 (Malavita encore, 2008)
- Dieu n'a pas réponse à tout (mais Il est bien entouré) (2007) with Nicolas Barral
Links
- Tonino Benaquista on the Internet Movie Database