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Dacia Maraini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːtʃa maraˈiːni]; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.
Nasce a Firenze nel 1936, primogenita dell' antropologo, orientalista e scrittore fiorentino Fosco Maraini e della pittrice e gallerista palermitana Topazia Alliata, quest'ultima appartenente al ramo siciliano dell'antico casato pisano degli Alliata, ovverosia gli Alliata di Salaparuta.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan.
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Among her translated works are: Memorie di una ladra (1973); Donna in guerra (1975); Lettere a Marina (1980); Il treno per Helsinki (1984), a quasi-autobiographical novel which reconstructs the failure of the 1960s movements; Isolina (1985); La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); Viaggiando con passo di volpe.
Dacia Maraini is a well-known Italian writer whose work focuses on women's issues. The author of numerous plays, poetry collections, and novels, she is the recipient of many awards, most recently the Premio Strega for Buio (1999), and in April 2011 she was named a finalist for the fourth Man Booker International Prize .
Mar 28, 2008 · The Italian writer Dacia Maraini talks about her novel Colomba, a mystery set in an imaginary town in Abruzzo, where she spends her holidays. She reflects on the themes of disappearance, feminism, and the marginality of women in Italian history.
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Feb 21, 2017 · Dacia Maraini is a renowned Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and social activist. Tonight at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York City she will discuss, with Professor Jane Tylus, Writing Like Breathing, a new anthology of Maraini’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama in English translation.
