Eleonora Natilii
Creative writer and storyteller

Diploma in drama from the Paolo Grassi Academy; diploma in storytelling at Scuola Holden in Turin; master's degree in creative writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts

BIO

I graduated in drama from the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milan and in storytelling from the Scuola Holden in Turin, I worked and lived abroad between Germany and France for eight years. At the moment I'm pursuing a master's degree in creative writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and I teach my subject in the province of Cuneo, where I also work as a journalist. I speak four languages fluently and am not afraid to use them.
 

What I love most about language is the plasticity of verbal matter, soft and ductile like a clay stick. Thoughts and ideas can be pressed like diamonds or cut like long garlands of paper, and a person's life can open and close in two words and a dot — who doesn't remember the Ei fu. of Manzoni? — or you can surround a single day with an entire novel. 

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Creative writing frees from the anxiety of originality because one discovers almost immediately that originality is within reach. We don't have to look for it, because we already have it: like a fingerprint, it's our trademark. We can amaze, convince or make people smile starting only from ourselves: what we know, what we feel. Our toolbox opens with the game and nothing is ever missing to play: what we have, coincidentally, is all we need.