Fenoglio

Infobox character
colour = lavender
colour text =
name = Fenoglio
series = "Inkworld"


caption =
first = "Inkheart"
last = "Inkdeath"
creator = Cornelia Funke
portrayer = Jim Broadbent
age = Elderly
family = Paula
(granddaughter)
Pippo
(grandson)

Fenoglio is a fictional character in the "Inkworld" trilogy by Cornelia Funke. He is to be played by Jim Broadbent in the film adaptation of "Inkheart" to be released in 2008.

Character biography

Fenoglio is the author who wrote the fictional novel "Inkheart". He lives in a small village in Italy, and often babysits his three grandchildren, Paula, Pippo and Rico, who he loves dearly.

As the original author of "Inkheart", Fengolio has the power to change the story, which he does by writing new parts. He helped Meggie Folchart when they were both taken captive by writing a new coda in which Capricorn and his monster servant, The Shadow, are killed. This was then read aloud by Meggie and her father, Mortimer, turning fiction into reality.

On the night of Capricorn's death, Fenoglio is accidentally transported into the world which he created, where he goes on to make a living as a poet. He purchases a glass man named Rosenquartz, who sleeps on Fenoglio's writing desk, and helps him ink his quills. He becomes court poet to Cosimo the Fair after Meggie reads the once-dead prince out of the paper he wrote for her.