Melina Marchetta

Quick Facts

Full Name	Melina Marchetta
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1965(1965-03-25)
Age	59
Birthplace	Sydney
Country	Australia
Birth City	New South Wales
Horoscope	Pisces

Melina Marchetta Biography

Melina Marchetta is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on March 25, 1965 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Melina Marchetta was conceived in Sydney, 25 March 1965. Italian-American, she is a middle child and has two sisters. Marchetta went to Rosebank College, a suburb of Five Dock in Sydney. At fifteen, Marchetta dropped out of school because she wasn’t confident in her academic abilities. After graduating from high school, she enrolled at a business school. This helped her get a job with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Later, she worked as a travel agent. She was able to work hard and earn a teaching degree at the Australian Catholic University. From then on, she was a teacher at St Mary’s Cathedral College in Sydney. She now writes full time.

Marchetta was a full-time teacher of English, Italian, and History for ten years while she wrote the AFI-award-winning screenplay. In 2003, she published Saving Francesca, her second novel. On the Jellicoe Road was released in 2006. Both novels were published in over 6 countries. Saving Francesca was also translated into 4 languages. Jellicoe Road, the American edition of the novel, won the 2009 Printz award for “literary excellence and young adult literature”.

Her fifth novel, The Piper’s Son was released in Australia in 2010 and is an accompanying novel to Saving Francesca, but through the perspective of another character in the book.

She is currently working on the screenplay of her novel On the Jellicoe Road. In interviews she has announced that she will be trying to keep the film as similar to events in the book. “I’m always irritated when I watch films that were based from books, but where whole scenes are just cut out. It’s really a disappointment” she told the Australian YA Circle, in an Interview earlier in March 2012. “I don’t want Jellicoe Road to be those books that should never have been made into a film sort of thing.” The development of the film is being kept strictly closed, but there is talks about cast members being auditioned as close as late this year.

Marchetta was the screenwriter for Looking for Alibrandi (1999), which starred Pia Miranda and Greta Scacchi. It received rave reviews and was a great box office hit. The film won five awards, including the AFI Award and the Independent Film Award for best script.

Melina Marchetta Net Worth

Melina Marchetta is one of the richest Writer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Melina Marchetta 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carmelina Marchetta, a teacher and writer from Australia, was born 25 March 1965. Marchetta is most well-known for her teen novels Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca. In 1993 and 2004, she was awarded the CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. She won the 2009 Michael L. Printz award from the American Library Association for Jellicoe Road. This honor recognizes the best book for young adults.

In 1992, Looking for Alibrandi, her first novel, was published to great acclaim. It sold out its first print run within two months. Looking for Alibrandi was published in 14 countries and 11 translations. It won the pool of literary awards for young adults fiction in 1993, including the coveted CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. The popular novel was dubbed “the most stolen book” and has been sold in excess of half a million copies around the world. It was also followed by the film adaptation, Looking for Alibrandi, which was released in 1999.

Marchetta’s fourth novel, the fantasy epic Finnikin of the Rock, was released by Penguin Australia in October 2008. It has since won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and the 2009 ABIA (Australian Booksellers Industry Awards) Book of the Year for Older Children, and was recently shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. In the USA Finnikin has received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books.

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Melina Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Melina Marchetta celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.

Is Melina Marchetta Italian?

Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney on 25 March 1965. She is of Italian descent , a middle child with two sisters. Marchetta attended high school at Rosebank College in the Sydney suburb of Five Dock. She left school at age fifteen as she was not confident in her academic ability.

Where did Melina Marchetta grow up?

Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney and left school after grade ten to work for a major Australian bank. She later worked as a consultant for a travel company and travelled to England, China, the (then) Soviet Union, and the United States of America.

Why did Melina Marchetta write Looking for Alibrandi?

Marchetta originally wanted to incorporate her grandfather’s stories, but ended up focusing on her grandmother’s. “I went to Italy for the first time when I was 19… I met my great aunts, and they would just tell us stories, and I remember writing all these stories down.

When was Melina Marchetta born?

March 25, 1965 (age 57 years)

Who wrote Looking for Alibrandi?

Melina Marchetta