Edoardo Albinati (1956) worked as a teacher at an infamous Roman prison for twenty years. He is the author of several novels and short story collections, as well as the writer of screenplays for Italian directors Matteo Garrone and Marco Bellocchio. He broke through both in Italy and internationally with his novel La scuola cattolica. Selling over 85.000 copies in Italy, the novel earned him the Premio Strega in 2016. A tv adoption is in the works.