Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista at an autograph session at the Salon du livre in 2008

Tonino Benacquista (born in Choisy-le-Roi on 1 September 1961) is an award-winning French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita (Badfellas for 2010 English translation), which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media and EuropaCorp titled The Family; it was released on September 13, 2013, in North America.

Awards

1992 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Commedia des ratés
1998 Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for L'Outremangeur
2001 César Award for Best Writing for Sur mes lèvres, shared with Jacques Audiard.
2005 César Award for Best Writing – Adapted, for The Beat That My Heart Skipped, shared with Jacques Audiard

External links

Tonino Benacquista fansite

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