Ben Faccini
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- The Water-Breather
- The Incomplete Husband
- Other People's Children
- Cry, Mother Spain
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| Language | English |
| Years active | 2002–present |
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Ben Faccini is an English novelist and translator who was born in England and grew up in France and Italy. After working for many years for UNESCO in Paris, where he wrote extensively on education and disadvantaged children, he published the novels The Water-Breather (2002), The Incomplete Husband (2007), and Other People's Children (2026), and has translated French-language fiction into English, including Lydie Salvayre's Pas pleurer as Cry, Mother Spain, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.[1][2][3]
The son of an Italian father and English mother, Faccini grew up in rural France but was educated in England.[4] He is the brother of the singer, songwriter and painter, Piers Faccini.
UNESCO publications
Having worked for many years at UNESCO in Paris (helping between 2008 and 2010 to run its My Life is a Story campaign, to raise awareness about street children),[5] Faccini has written extensively about educational innovations around the world and has been the author, or co-author, of numerous UNESCO publications, including (in English):[6]
- Of copper and fire: the Self-Help Action Plan for Education (SHAPE) in Zambia (1996)
- Early childhood development: laying the foundations of learning (1998)
- From garbage to gold in Cairo (1999)
- Laying Foundations: survival crafts in Mozambique (1999)
- Recycled rags, renewed lives: working with the garbarge collectors of Cairo, Egypt (1999)
- Technology and learning (2000)
- Empress Jovem: the dream of inventive hands (2001)
- Peace Pillar Award Initiative: good practices in support of educating for peace and non-violence (2004)
- Capacity Development for Education for All: translating theory into practice; the CapEFA Programme (2011)