Francesco Verso is an Italian science fiction writer and translator of science fiction from English into Italian. Born in Bologna, Italy, he lives and works in Rome.
Biography
After earning a degree in Environmental economics from Roma Tre University in 2001, Verso started working for IBM in the personal computer division. He stayed on in 2005 when that division became Lenovo, the Chinese PC multinational technology company. He left Lenovo in 2008.[citation needed]
He started writing in 1996, first poems and then the novel Antidoti umani, which was nominated for a 2004 Urania Award.[1] In 2008 he received an honorable mention at the Premio Internazionale di Poesia for "Mario Luzi" [2] In 2009 he won the Urania Award with the novel Il fabbricante di sorrisi, published in the I romanzi di Urania series with the title e-Doll.[3]
In 2010, he finished his third novel, Livido, and the short stories "Flush", "Dodici centesimi", "Sogno di un futuro di mezza estate", "Due mondi", and "La morte in diretta di Fernando Morales". In 2011 he finished the novel Bloodbusters and began writing I camminatori. In 2012 his novel, Livido, won the Premio Odissea.[4][5]
His novel Livido also won the Premio Cassiopea in 2014,[6] and received the Premio Italia[7] for best Italian science fiction novel. During the same year, the novel's Australian rights Australian publisher Xoum, and it was published in English as Livid.
From 2011 to 2013 he worked with Kipple Officina Libraria as co-editor of the literature series Avatar.[8] In 2014 he created the Future Fiction label, which specializes in publishing books in the science fiction genre originating from different countries, languages and cultures than Italy.[9]
In 2015 he won his second Urania Award with his novel Bloodbusters[10] (equally placed with Sandro Battisti for the novel L'impero restaurato).
In 2018 he won an Italia Award as best editor for the series of book published on Future Fiction.[11]
In 2019 he received at the Refesticon Convention in Montenegro the Golden Dragon Award (Zlatni Zmaj) for achievements in the development of Science Fiction Literature.[12]
