Marta Morazzoni (born 1950) is an Italian educator and writer.
She was born at
Gallarate
Gallarate (; Lombard: ''Galaraa'') is a city and ''comune'' of Alto Milanese of Lombardy and of Milan metropolitan area, northern Italy, in the Province of Varese. It has a population of some 54,000 people.
It is the junction of railways to Va ...
in
Lombardy
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and studied philosophy at the
University of Milan
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. She taught high school literature at Gallarate. She published ''La Ragazza col turbante'' (The Girl with the Turban), a group of stories, in 1986; it was translated into nine languages.
[ Her 1988 novel ''L'invenzione della verità'' (The invention of truth) was a finalist for the ]Premio Campiello
The ''Premio Campiello'' is an annual Italian literary prize.
A Jury of Literary Experts (''Giuria di letterati'' in Italian) identifies books published during the year and, in a public hearing, selects five of those as finalists. These books ar ...
. The novel ''Il caso Courrier'' published in 1997 was awarded the Premio Campiello and the United Kingdom Independent Foreign Fiction Award.
Selected works[ ]
* ''Casa materna'' (His Mother's House), novel (1992) - finalist for the Premio Campiello
* ''L'estuario'' (Estuary), novel (1996)
* ''Una lezione di stile'' (A lesson in style), novel (2002)
* ''Un incontro inatteso per il consigliere Goethe'' (An unexpected meeting for counsellor Geothe) (2005)
References
1950 births
Living people
20th-century Italian novelists
21st-century Italian novelists
Italian women short story writers
Italian women novelists
Premio Campiello winners
21st-century Italian women writers
20th-century Italian women writers
20th-century Italian short story writers
21st-century Italian short story writers
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