Francesca Tassini

Francesca Tassini is a writer, screenwriter and teacher of screenwriting at Luchino Visconti Film School in Milan.

Her novels "Snow Black" and "Snow Black Senza Cuore" (translated into Spanish by Grupo Edebè) were adapted into the television series "Snow Black," produced by Rai Ragazzi.

In 2019, Solferino Libri (RCS group) published her first novel-memoir, "Come mosche nel miele" (Like Flies in Honey). The book was a finalist for the Severino Cesari Prize at Umbria Libri, as well as for the Wondy Prize for Resilient Literature.

Between 2021 and 2022 she published two crime novels for ages 8+, "Nina e i segreti del Taxi" (Nina and the Secrets of the Taxi) and "Nina e il mistero del cervo bianco" (Nina and the Mystery of the White Deer).

In 2024 Cosmo Books published "Canti del Ferro" ("A Dream of Flesh and Iron") a novel illustrated by Daniele Serra, winner of three British Fantasy Awards. That same year, Tunué published "MangiAmi," a coming-of-age horror graphic novel based on an idea by Tassini and Mario Pasqualotto, and a short story in the anthology "Sette storie horror" ("Eight horror tales") for Il Battello a Vapore. In 2025, Zona42 published her novelette "Arena" and a short story ("Tempio") inside the anthology "Teratocene" curated by Lucio Besana, Andrea Gibertoni and Luigi Musolino.

In 2025 the film "Indelebile" (a coming-of-age thriller starring Fabrizio Ferracane and Giulia Dragotto), written with F. Scanu, L. Di Molfetta, and L. C. Chiossone hit the theaters in Italy.

Her first feature-length screenplay, "Tra cinque minuti in scena" was written in 2012. It received numerous awards both in Italy and abroad, including the FICE, Cicae Todeschini at the Annècy Film Festival, the Bollate Prison Jury Prize, and finally the RIFF (Russia-Italia Film Festival) for Best Film.

Over the years she has worked under commission, as well as for original screenplays, documentaries, series, commercials, adaptations of novels into television series and films and articles for online newspapers and magazines.

She is a freelance editor and editor for Mondadori, Rizzoli, Sperling & Kupfer, and DeAgostini.