Biografia
Cristiano Cavina was born in 1974 at Casola Valsenio, province of Ravenna. He grew up with his mother and maternal grandparents in “a meagre flat” on a housing estate. He dressed up as a pirate at carnival, wore himself out on the football pitch and pedalled kilometres and kilometres on his bike. Listening to the old folks’ tales he developed a deep-rooted passion for stories: books soon became his second home. Without overdoing his studies and working where he could, he came through the dark years unscathed and started telling his own stories. He has won several literary competitions; the short story Il Babbo Natale di Via Neri arriva prima appears in the anthology Il quarto re magio (published by Marcos y Marcos in 2002) together with authors such as Heinrich Böll, Pier Paolo Pisolini and Vittorio Tondelli. A few months later Alla grande, his first novel, came out.
In novembre 2005 Cavina’s second novel, Nel paese di Tolintesàc, is published. It is very successful and it makes the author very popular in Italy. The book stayed for more than two months in the most sold chart of Italy. In 2006 he won, together with two more writers, the Premio Fenice Europa 2006.
The third novel, published in November 2006, was dedicated to one of his great passions: soccer. Un’ultima stagione da esordienti sells well, confirming that Cavina had built a group of passionate readers.
His fourth novel, I frutti dimenticati, was published in 2008 and shows a grown-up Cavina as a protagonist.
In 2010, still with Marcos y Marcos publishing house, his fifth work came out: Scavare una buca. This time the protagonist is not Cavina, but a miner who works in a gypsum cave.