Marcello Di Cintio

Marcello was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He lives in Calgary with his son, Amedeo. == Education ==

Marcello studied Microbiology and English at the University of Calgary, and was also a member of the University of Calgary Wrestling Team. He graduated in 1997 with both BA and BSc degrees. == Bibliography ==

Di Cintio won the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Walls: Travels Along the Barricades. The award was made on March 6, 2013 at the Writers' Trust of Canada's annual Politics and the Pen in Ottawa, Ontario. Walls: Travels Along the Barricades was also nominated for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the 2013 British Columbia National Award for Non-Fiction. Di Cintio won the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize in 2012 for Walls: Travels Along the Barricades and, again, in 2018 for Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense. Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers won the 2022 Bressani Literary Prize presented by The Association of Italian-Canadian Writers. Di Cintio's books and magazine stories have won three Dave Greber Freelance Writers Awards, five Alberta literary Awards, a National Magazine award, and three Alberta Magazine Awards. His work has also been nominated for several other prizes. ==References==