



His novel Livido also won the Premio Cassiopea in 2014, and received the Premio Italia for best Italian science fiction novel. In 2012 his novel, Livido, won the Premio Odissea. In 2011 he finished the novel Bloodbusters and began writing I camminatori. 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 2008 he received an honorable mention at the Premio Internazionale di Poesia for "Mario Luzi" 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. He started writing in 1996, first poems and then the novel Antidoti umani, which was nominated for a 2004 Urania Award. He stayed on in 2005 when that division became Lenovo, the Chinese PC multinational technology company. Born in Bologna, Italy, he lives and works in Rome.Īfter earning a degree in Environmental economics from Roma Tre University in 2001, Verso started working for IBM in the personal computer division. Francesco Verso is an Italian science fiction writer and translator of science fiction from English into Italian.
