Giorgio van Straten | |
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| Born | 1955 Florence, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist, librettist, playwright, editor, translator, critic, manager |
| Genre | fiction |
| Notable works | Il mio nome a memoria (My Name, A Living Memory) |
| Notable awards | Grand Official Order of Merit of the Republic, Viareggio Prize, Zerilli-Marimò Prize for Italian Fiction |
| Relatives | Louis Fles, Barthold Fles George Fles, Michael Fles Bart Berman, Helen Berman, Thijs Berman |
Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations. His first novel Generazione was published in 1987. In 2000 he won four literary prizes for Il mio nome a memoria, published in English as My Name, A Living Memory (2003), the story of his Jewish-Dutch family from 1811 to our days. That same year he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.[1]