Rosella Postorino (Reggio Calabria, 1978) is an Italian author. In 2013, she won the ''International Prize Città di Penne'', and in 2018 she won the
Rapallo Carige Prize
The Rapallo Carige Prize ( it, Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice) is an Italian literary award, established in 1985 by the Municipality of Rapallo and the Carige Bank (''Banca Carige'').
The award is intended to promote writing by wom ...
and 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 ...
.
Life
Born in
Reggio Calabria
Reggio di Calabria ( scn, label= Southern Calabrian, Riggiu; el, label= Calabrian Greek, Ρήγι, Rìji), usually referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria. It has an estimated popul ...
, southern Italy, in 1978, Postorino was raised in
San Lorenzo al Mare
San Lorenzo al Mare ( lij, San Loénso) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about southwest of Genoa and about west of Imperia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,409 and ...
, Liguria, northern Italy. In 2001 she moved to Rome.
Postorino published her first story "In una capsula" (In a Capsule) in 2004 in the anthology ''Ragazze che dovresti conoscere'' (Girls you Should Know). In 2007 she released her first novel, ''La stanza di sopra'' (The Room Upstairs).
Her 2018 novel ''Le assaggiatrici'' (''
At the Wolf's Table'') won the 56th
Campiello Prize
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 Luigi Russo Prize, the Rapallo Prize and the Premio Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi.
Postorino has also translated and edited works by
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...
.
Works
Novels
* ''La stanza di sopra'', Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2007
* ''L'estate che perdemmo Dio'', Turin: Einaudi, 2009
* ''Il corpo docile'', Turin: Einaudi, 2013
*''Le assaggiatrici'', Milan:
Feltrinelli, 2018 , published in English as ''
At the Wolf's Table'', trans. Leah Janeczko, New York: Flatiron books, 2019 .
Nonfiction
* ''Il mare in salita'', Rome – Bari: GLF editori Laterza, 2011
Anthology
* ''Ragazze che dovresti conoscere'', Turin: Einaudi, 2004
* ''Working for paradise'', Milan:
Bompiani
Bompiani is an Italian publishing house based in Milan. It was founded in 1929 by Valentino Bompiani.
In 1990, Bompiani became part of the RCS MediaGroup. It was sold in 2015 to the Giunti Group. It is widely regarded as one of the leading literar ...
, 2009
Translations
* ''
Moderato cantabile
''Moderato Cantabile'' is a novel by Marguerite Duras. It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras' fame.
Plot
The plot is initially the banal daily routine of a rich woman taking her son to piano lesso ...
'' of
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...
, Trieste: Nonostante, 2013
* ''Testi segreti'' di
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...
, Trieste: Nonostante, 2015
Bibliography
* ''Anticorpi: dialoghi con
Emma Dante
Emma Dante (born 6 April 1967) is an Italian playwright, theatre director and stage actress. She wrote, directed and starred in the 2013 film ''A Street in Palermo''. She later directed numerous operas, including Richard Strauss' ''Feuersnot'' a ...
e Rosella Postorino'' di Luisa Cavaliere, Napoli, Liguori, 2010
References
External links
Rosella Postorino biographyCatalogo del servizio bibliotecario nazionaleInterview of Rosella Postorino
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1978 births
Living people
People from Reggio Calabria
20th-century Italian women writers
21st-century Italian women writers
Italian translators
Premio Campiello winners
French–Italian translators