Monica Acito

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 the 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 Award.
She writes for Robinson, the cultural supplement of la Repubblica.

Carnal Charity

“Carnal Charity” is the story of the bond between a father and a daughter, stronger than any sin and any silence; it is the coming-of-age novel of a provincial girl who becomes a woman in a grand and unsettling city.

Gooseberry

He was born with a birthmark under his left eye, like a pale fruit embedded in his skin-Uvaspina soon became accustomed to being called by the name that identifies him with his spot. To almost everything, after all, he is able to get used to: to his father, the notary Pasquale Riccio, who…