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Caterina Serra

caterina.serra@epfl.ch https://caterinaserra.blog/

EPFL CDH-DIR
CM 2 274 (Centre Midi)
Station 10
1015 Lausanne

Mission

Current Work

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE
excerpt from “diary of an end(pretend)ed relationship”

Curriculum vitae

Writer and screenwriter

Caterina Serra — short bio / CV

Winner of the Paola Biocca Prize for Literary Reportage (2006) for Chiusa in una stanza sempre aperta, which led to the novel-reportage Tilt (Einaudi, 2008). Her second book is Padreterno. A Story Against Sexism (Einaudi, 2015).
Latest book: Bruceremo, VandA editions, 2024.

Author of poetic and political texts, including Displacement (photographs by Giovanni Cocco, Postcart).

Screenplays (selected) — films

  • Guerra, dir. Pippo Delbono (2003).

  • Napoli Piazza Municipio, dir. Bruno Oliviero (2008) — Best Documentary Film, Turin Film Festival 2008.

  • Piccola Patria, dir. Alessandro Rossetto (2013) — 70th Venice Film Festival; Best Film Prize, Villerupt 2014.

  • Effetto Domino, dir. Alessandro Rossetto (2019) — 76th Venice Film Festival.

Press and journals

Contributes to il manifesto, l’Espresso, Domani, and online journals (OperaViva Magazine, Jacobin Italia, DoppioZero). Founder of the viral magazine “Alcol/:id 19”.

Research

Since September 2024: design and coordination of the project Future of Writing — Literature & AI
at the Digital Humanities LAB, EPFL (Switzerland).