Domenico Starnone is an Italian writer, screenwriter and journalist. Born in Saviano, near Naples, he has worked on several newspapers and satirical magazines, including L'Unit�, Il Manifesto, Tango, and Cuore, usually about episodes of his life as a high school teacher. He also works as screenwriter. The movies La scuola and Denti are based on his books. His most appreciated book is Via Gemito, which won the Premio Strega in 2001. It has been recently suggested that the mysterious writer Elena Ferrante, author of L'amore molesto and I giorni dell'abbandono, was Starnone himself. 

February 15th, 1943 in Saviano (Age 81)