{{Short description|Italian novelist (born 1972)}} {{Infobox person | name = Fabio Geda | image = FabiogedaB&N.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Fabio Geda, Central Park, New York, 2012 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|1 March 1972}} | birth_place = Turin, Italy | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer}}
'''Fabio Geda''' (born 1 March 1972) is an Italian novelist.
Born in Turin, Geda graduated in Communication Sciences with a thesis in marketing.<ref name="siciliaedonna">{{cite news|last1=Angela Marina Strano|title=Fabio Geda, un successo tradotto in 32 Paesi|url=http://www.siciliaedonna.it/interviste/fabio-geda-un-successo-tradotto-in-32-paesi/|accessdate=30 October 2016|work=Sicilia & Donna|date=13 October 2015}}</ref> He worked as an educator, first as a voluntary, later into a cooperative.<ref name="Iaccarino">{{cite news|last1=Luca Iaccarino|title=L' altra Torino va allo strega|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2007/05/26/altra-torino-va-allo-strega.html?ref=search|accessdate=30 October 2016|work=La Repubblica|date=26 May 2007}}</ref> His debut novel ''Per il resto del viaggio ho sparato agli indiani'' has been selected for the Strega Prize.<ref name="Iaccarino"/>
Geda had his breakout in 2010 with the novel ''In the Sea There Are Crocodiles'' ({{langx|it|Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli}}); based on a true story of Enaiat Akbari, the novel became a bestseller, selling over 400,000 copies in Italy alone and being translated in over 30 languages.<ref name="Iaccarino"/><ref>{{cite news|last1=Giovanni Cocco|title=Solo lacrimucce e retorica Gli editori non osano più|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/spettacoli/solo-lacrimucce-e-retorica-editori-non-osano-pi-1210064.html|accessdate=30 October 2016|work=Il Giornale|date=5 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Marco Verdura|title=I libri più venduti delle case editrici italiane: Baldini&Castoldi|url=http://www.ilpost.it/2016/03/09/best-seller-case-editrici-italiane/baldinicastoldi/|accessdate=30 October 2016|work=Il Post|date=9 March 2016}}</ref>
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