Luisa Adorno, pseudonym of Mila Curradi (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2021) was an Italian writer and teacher.

Biography

Adorno spent her career as a secondary school teacher. She collaborated with the magazines '' Il Mondo'', ', ''

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'', and '. In 2005, she was a judge for the . In 1963, Adorno was awarded the Premio Alpi Apuane. In 1985, she was given the Premio Prato-Europa and the for ''Le dorate stanze''. ItalianIn 1990, she won the

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for ''Arco di luminara''. In 1999, a collection of her works was housed in the

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, where it remains to this day. That same year, she was awarded the Premio Vittorini for ''Sebben che siamo donne''. In 2001, she became a Grand Officer of the

Order of Merit of the Italian Republic The Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ( it, Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana) is the senior Italian order of merit. It was established in 1951 by the second President of the Italian Republic, Luigi Einaudi. The highest-ranking ...

. Luisa Adorno died in

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on 12 July 2021 at the age of 99.

Distinctions

*Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2001)

Works

*''L'ultima provincia'' (1983) *''Le dorate stanze'' (1985) *''Arco di luminara'' (1990) *''La libertà ha un cappello a cilindro'' (1993) *''Come a un ballo in maschera'' (1995) *''Sebben che siamo donne'' (1999) *''Foglia d'acero'' (2001) *''Tutti qui con me'' (2008) *''Italia mia'' (2010)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adorno, Luisa 1921 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Italian writers Italian educators People from Pisa Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic 20th-century pseudonymous writers Pseudonymous women writers 20th-century Italian women writers