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Calligarich focused also on television and film screenwriting, and in 1994 he founded the stage company Teatro XX Secolo.[.

Gianfranco Calligarich was an Italian novelist, screenwriter and dramatist.

In 2011, he won the Bagutta Prize with Privati abissi ("Private abysses"), and in 2017 he won the Viareggio Prize with La malinconia dei Crusich ("Melancholy of the Crusichs").

Calligarich made his literary return in 2002, with the collection of short stories Posta prioritaria ("Priority Mail").

After writing a few short stories, in 1973 he released his debut novel Last Summer in the City (L'ultima estate in città), which after having been rejected from all the major editors was published by Garzanti upon suggestion of Natalia Ginzburg.