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Giuliana Morandini

Giuliana Morandini

Italian writer (1938–2019)

Giuliana Morandini (1938[1] – 22 July 2019)[2] was an Italian writer.[3]

She was born in Pavia di Udine and lived in Rome and Venezia. Her first book E allora mi hanno rinchiusa: testimonianze dal manicomio femminile (And so I was locked up: Testimony from a Women's Mental Hospital) (1977) was a study of women in Italian mental hospitals; it was a finalist for the Viareggio Prize. Her first novel I cristalli di Vienna was published in 1978 and received the Prato Prize; it was translated into English as Bloodstains. This was followed by Caffè Specchi (The Café of Mirrors) in 1983, which received the Viareggio Prize. Her 1987 novel Angelo a Berlino (Angel in Berlin) was a finalist for the Premio Campiello.[3]

In 1980, she published La voce che è in lei (The voice within her), an anthology of writing by little-known or forgotten Italian women authors. She also wrote an introduction for Italian translations of Samuel Beckett.[4]

Selected works

Source:[3]

  • Ricercare Carlotta, children's book (1979)
  • Poesie d'amore (Love poems), collected poetry by women (1986)
  • Sogno a Herrenberg (Dreams in Herrenberg), historical novel (1991)
  • Giocando a dama con la luna (Playing checkers with the moon), historical novel (1996)

References

  1. [1]
    "Giuliana Morandini". Prague Writers' Festival.
  2. [2]
    "Morta la scrittrice Giuliana Morandini". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  3. [3]
    Miller, Jane Eldridge (2001). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. p. 222. ISBN 0415159806.
  4. [4]
    Wilson, Katharina M; Schlueter, Paul; Schlueter, June (2013). Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. pp. 327–28. ISBN 978-1135616700.
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