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Biography
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 andEuropaCorp titled The Family; it was released on September 13, 2013, in North America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tonino Benacquista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Grand prix RTL-Lire · 2002
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière · 1992
- Michel-Lebrun prize · 1990
- CWA International Dagger · 2010 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Screenwriter · 2002 · nominated
