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Federico De Rosa (born in Rome, 1993) is an Italian writer, journalist and commentator dealing with the topic of the autistic spectrum.
Biography
[edit]Autistic, he expresses himself almost exclusively through writing. Son of Oreste, he has a high school diploma. In 2014 he published his first book Quello che non ho mai detto – Io, il mio autismo e quello in cui credo, translated into other languages (in German by Neue Stadt, in Portuguese by Paolinas and in Slovenian by Novi Stat) and published in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Switzerland. In the same year, the book won the Montesacro Prize. The second book, L'isola di Noi – Guida al paese dell'autismo, was published in October 2016. In 2020 he published his third book, Una mente diversa. Raccontare l'autismo e scacciare i suoi fantasmas. For all 3 books, the publishing house is Edizioni San Paolo.
He won the Inclusion 4.0 – creative writing award given to him by the University of Foggia in 2023.
De Rosa, for his books, is known at a national level in Italy and has received numerous invitations to meetings and conferences in several cities.
Since 2021, he has been writing a blog in the Health section of the newspaper la Repubblica, in which he talks about his life as an autistic person. The title of his column is Diary of an autistic boy. For the same editorial, he writes reviews of books on the autism spectrum.