Tonino Benacquista

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

Novels

• ], Éditions Gallimard, 1997
• ', Éditions Gallimard, 2001
• ], Éditions Gallimard, 2004
• ', Éditions Gallimard, 2008
• Homo erectus, Éditions Gallimard, 2011
• Romanesque, Éditions Gallimard, 2016
• Toutes les histoires d'amour ont été racontées, sauf une, Éditions Gallimard, 2020
• Porca miseria, Éditions Gallimard, 2022
• Tiré de faits irréels, Éditions Gallimard, 2025

Awards

• 1992 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Commedia des ratés
• 1998 Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for L'Outremangeur; Grand prix des lectrices de Elle for Saga, Éditions Gallimard
• 2001 César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation for Sur mes lèvres, shared with Jacques Audiard
• 2005 César Award for Best Adaptation, for The Beat That My Heart Skipped, shared with Jacques Audiard

References

External links

• Tonino Benacquista fansite