Acito, Monica
Biography
Monica Acito was born in 1993. She grew up in Cilento, between the Calore gorges and the temples of Paestum. After graduating from classical high school she moved to he historic centre of Naples and specialised in Modern Philology at the Federico II University. She teaches humanities at middle and high school.
In 2021, she won, among other awards, the Calvino Prize for short fiction, and in 2023 she made her debut with the novel Uvaspina, which has been translated into several languages and won the Fiesole Under 40 Prize, the Massarosa Prize, the Fondazione Uspidalet Prize, the Kihlgren-Vincenzo Malvasi Prize, and the Young Promise of NAtional Literature Prize. She writes for Robinson, the cultural supplement of la Repubblica.
