Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista is a French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita, 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

:fr:Saga |Saga , Éditions Gallimard, 1997 ', Éditions Gallimard, 2001:fr:Malavita|Malavita , Éditions Gallimard, 2004

', Éditions Gallimard, 2008Homo erectus, Éditions Gallimard, 2011Romanesque, Éditions Gallimard, 2016Toutes les histoires d'amour ont été racontées, sauf une, Éditions Gallimard, 2020Porca miseria, Éditions Gallimard, 2022Tiré 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