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Natalia Ginzburg |
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14th July 1916 |
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Palermo, Sicily, Italy |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (14 July 1916, Palermo, Italy - 7 October 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics, and philosophy. Born in Sicily, she came from a Jewish family with origins in Trieste; she spent most of her youth in Turin. She published her first story, I Bambini, in 1933 in the magazine Solaria. In 1938 she married Leone Ginzburg, and used the name Natalia Ginzburg (occasionally spelled Ginzberg) on most subsequent publications. Her first novel, however, was published under the pseudonym Alessandra Tornimparte in 1942, during Italy's most anti-semitic period (it was reprinted in 1945 under her own name). Though Ginzburg was able to live relatively free of harrassment during World War II, her husband was forced to spend much of this period in a village in Abruzzo as the result of anti-semitic actions against him. He was murdered in 1944.
Ginzburg spent much of the 1940s working for the publisher Einaudi in Turin; her second novel was published in 1947. In 1950 she married Gabriele Baldini, a scholar of English literature. This was the beginning of the most prolific period of Ginzburg's literary career, during which she published most of the works for which she is best known. Her second husband died in 1969.
Involved throughout her life in politics as an activist and polemicist, she was elected to the Italian Parliament as a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1983.
Literary works
- La strada che va in città (1942)
- È stato così (1947; The Dry Heart 1949)
- Tutti i nostri ieri (1952; A Light for Fools 1956)
- Valentino (1957)
- Sagittario (1957)
- Le voci della sera (1961; Voices in the Evening 1963)
- Lessico famigliare (1963; Family Sayings 1967)
- Mai devi domandarmi (1970)
- Caro Michele (1973)
- Vita immaginaria (1974)
- La famiglia Manzoni (1983)
- La città e la casa (1984; The City and the House 1987)
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