Federico Cavina

Federico Cavina born in Milan on 7 December 1973, the holiday of Milan’s patron saint, which allows him to spend his birthdays on vacation for all his school years. His childhood and adolescence, marked by the tough Milan burbs, generate serious insecurities in his personality. In the beginning of the Nineties he works as conchy for ten months in a library in the hinterland where he develops a mad passion for books. This lucky escape from the hard streets leads him in 2000 to his first novel Autopista (Addictions). Then he ruins a brilliant university curriculum to work in the shining world of ad agencies. He marries a doctor in the attempt to heal his various bouts of hypochondria and reproduces himself two times in the illusion of creating his perfect clone. Basically, he writes to avoid paying an analyst.