Dacia Maraini is one of the
most popular, praised, and translated Italian writers in Europe
and the U.S.A.
A protagonist in the Italian
literary scene since the 60's, Maraini has enriched it with novels,
plays, poems and essays. Some of her best known works abroad
include Woman at War (1975), considered a manifesto of
the Italian feminist movement, Isolina (1985), a romanzo-verità
on violence against women, The Silent Duchess (1990),
a journey in the intense life of the mute Marianna Ucrìa,
one of Maraini's Sicilian ancestors, and Voices (1994),
a detective story whose background witnesses the so many unresolved
crimes against women.
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As a playwright, Maraini produced
collections of plays such as Il ricatto a teatro (1970),
Maria Stuarda (1975), I sogni di Clitennestra (1981),
Veronica, meretrice e scrittora (1991). Her rich dramatic
production will be soon released in Italy as opera omnia.
Maraini's contribution to society
and academia through her consistent participation in Italian
TV programs and conferences in European and American universities,
has not hindered her prolific activity as a writer. In 1997,
the epistolary novel Dolce per se' was published and has
already been translated in three countries, and in 1998 Se
amando troppo, a collection of poems. Buio, twelve stories
about child abuse, released in February of 1999, won the prestigious
Italian literary prize, the Premio
Strega in the Summer of 1999.
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