Nicoletta Vallorani (born 7 February 1959) is an Italian science fiction writer. Born in

Offida Offida () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about south of Ancona and about northeast of Ascoli Piceno, on a rocky spur between the valleys of the Tesino (from north) and Tro ...

, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan. Her work as an essayist focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular. She contributed to various genre magazines, including ''Cosmo'', ''La città e le stelle'', ''Studi e ricerche sulla fantascienza'' and ''Ucronia''. For Mondadori she did volume prefaces, articles, interviews, columns. Starting in the mid-1980s she published novels and short-story collections. She won the Premio Urania 1992 with the novel ''Il cuore finto di DR'', a science fiction/noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the ''

Urania Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy, and in later times, of Christian poetry. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, he ...

'' inprint the following year, and also translated in French. She also writes noir and kids literature. In 2012 her novel ''Le madri cattive'' won the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Maria Teresa Di Lascia.Commune di Fiuminata, 17 September 2012, https://www.comune.fiuminata.mc.it/comunicati-cms/nicoletta-vallorani-vince-la-sesta-edizione-del-premio-nazionale-di-narrativa-%E2%80%9Cmaria-teresa-di-lascia%E2%80%9D/ In 2020 her novel
Avrai i miei occhi
' (Zona 42) was longlisted for the Premio Campiello an
Premio Napoli
Her latest novel is
Noi siamo campo di battaglia
' (Zona 42)

Bibliography

* ''Il cuore finto di DR'' (1992) * ''Dream box'' (1997) * ''Dentro la notte, e ciao'' (1995) * ''La fidanzata di Zorro'' (1999) * ''Luca De Luca detto Lince'' (1997) * ''Pagnotta e i suoi fratelli'' (1997) * ''Ahab e Azul'' (1997) * ''Cuore meticcio'' (1998) * ''I misti di Sur'' (1998) * ''Darjee'' (1999) * ''Le sorelle sciacallo'' (1999) * ''Occhi di lupo'' (2000) * ''Come una balena'' (2000) * ''La fatona'' (2002) * ''Eva'' (2002) * ''Visto dal cielo'' (2004) * ''Cordelia'' (2006) * ''Lapponi e criceti'' (2010) * ''Le madri cattive'' (2011) * ''Sulla sabbia di Sur'' (2012) * ''Hope - L'ultimo segreto del fuoco'' (2013) * ''Le sorelle sciacallo'' (2017) * ''Avrai i miei occhi'' (2020) * ''Noi siamo campo di battaglia'' (2022)

Work translated into English

* "The Catalog of Virgins" (translated by Rachel S. Cordasco), '' Clarkesworld'' magazine (2017

References

External links

Vallorani's blog
at ''Il Fatto Quotidiano'' (active 2012–2014)
Biography of Vallorani
in ''Fantascienza'' * Iosonoariel

Altre Modernità
' (Co-director) *
Le parole e le cose
' (member)
Nicoletta Vallorani profile
at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing,

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