Grazia VerasaniGrazia Verasani was born in Bologna in 1964, a city where she still lives and writes. She is an author of novels, plays, and screenplays as well as a musician who composes, performs, and records. She graduated from the Accademia d'arte drammatica in ome at the age of twenty. After some work with the Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo and with the Teatro Stabile di Torino, she began writing, while continuing her work as an actor.Originally published in 2006, "Nowhere Fast," featuring the PI Giorgia Cantini, was preceded in the series by "Quo Vadis, Baby?" (Italica Press, 2018), which was directed as a TV Series for Sky Cinema by Guido Chiesa (2008). Four more Cantini novels followed: "Di tutti e di nessuno" (2009), "Cosa sai della notte" (2012), "Senza ragione apparente" (2015, special mention at Premio Scerbanenco 5), and "Come la pioggia sul cellophan" (2020).Verasani won the 2011 National Dramatic Art Festival of Pesaro award for best author for her play "Maternity Blues (From Medea)," which was later made into a film that won the 2012 Tonino Guerra Prize for best screenplay. In 2016, Verasani published the epistolary novel "Lettera a Dina." Her most recent novel is "Hotel Madridda" (2024). She wrote the screenplay for the TV series "Amati fantasmi" for RAI 5 (2021) and with Andrea Adriatico and Stefano Casi, the screenplay for Adriatico's film "Gli anni amari" (2019). In 2023, she was awarded the Premio Veraldi alla Carriera. Read More Read Less