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Enzo Fileno Carabba

Italian writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3726524
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Enzo Fileno Carabba is an Italian writer with published works in Italy and abroad. He writes short stories, scripts for radio, librettos and children's books.

Biography

In 1990 his book Jakob Pesciolini (published by Einaudi, 1992) (the first volume of a trilogy which includes La regola del silenzio (1994) and La Foresta finale (1997)), won the Premio Calvino. In 2003 his novel where the fantastic element is mixed with a strong autobiographical element, Mauvais signes (published by Gallimard, Série Noire) was first distributed in France. It was published in Italy with the title Pessimi segnali (published by Marsilio, 2004).

In the novel Le colline oscure (published by Barbera, 2008) Angelo, the protagonist of Pessimi segnali, returns.

In 2010 his children's book Fuga da Magopoli (Salani, Gl'Istrici), was the winner of the Premio Critici in Erba 2011. The jury for this award consisted of hundreds of children.

In 2011 Con un poco di zucchero (published by Mondadori, Sis) was published. The first chapter of another novel set in Florence, and never published in Italy (La donna dell'ippopotamo) came out in 2012 in the Dutch anthology De stedenverzamelaar.

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“Enzo Fileno Carabba” enters the record as italian writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Enzo, Fileno and Carabba can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 1992, 1994, 1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Enzo, Fileno and Carabba.
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“Enzo Fileno Carabba” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Enzo, Fileno and Carabba provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3726524. The first chronological checks are 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Enzo Fileno Carabba” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.