He cut his teeth in theatre and television, then in 2009 came the supernova. Il suggeritore rewrites the rules of the genre – or rather genres, as it is not just a thriller, but many things at once, and above all a milestone in the modern conception of the novel, of narration, of the very concept of story – and an unstoppable career that sees the birth, as rarely happens, of a great author and a best-seller machine in the same pen.

But that’s not enough for Donato Carrisi. Awards such as the Bancarella and the Scerbanenco are not sufficient. The king of madness, pain, dark souls and the monsters that dwell within each of us wanted, needed to make films. It was in his destiny, already in a Solinas award that he won and in the David di Donatello as a debutant with La ragazza nella nebbia, the confirmation of a master who knows how to tell the unspeakable. No award was more fitting than the one that LdO will give him, given that Donato Carrisi has travelled the “Linea d’Ombra” (Shadow Line), or rather the Shadow, in every direction.