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Dacia Maraini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːtʃa maraˈiːni]; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan.
21 Feb 2017 · Dacia Maraini is a renowned Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and social activist. Tonight at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City she will discuss, with Professor Jane Tylus, Writing Like Breathing, a new anthology of Maraini’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama in English translation.
28 Mac 2008 · Dacia Maraini, one of the most important voices in contemporary fiction, translated all over the world, published her latest novel, Colomba, in December 2004, signaling her return to historical narrative with an epic, choral structure, after the international success of The Silent Duchess (1990), with over 1.5 million copies sold.
Among her translated works are: Memorie di una ladra (1973); Donna in guerra (1975); Lettere a Marina (1980); Il treno per Helsinki (1984), a quasi-autobiographical novel which reconstructs the failure of the 1960s movements; Isolina (1985); La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); Viaggiando con passo di volpe.
Dacia Maraini is a well-known Italian writer whose work focuses on women's issues. The author of numerous plays, poetry collections, and novels, she is the recipient of many awards, most recently the Premio Strega for Buio (1999), and in April 2011 she was named a finalist for the fourth Man Booker International Prize .
Dacia Maraini (b. 1936) has established herself as a leading contemporary novelist, poet, dramatist, and journalist. She founded an all-female theater company, is the editor of Nuovi Argomenti, Italy’s premier literary journal, and is recognized among the foremost Italian writers.
