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Dacia Maraini

Italian writer (1936) · Italy · Writers

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Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.

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2017Order of the Rising Sun, 4th classAward2012Alabarda d'Oro AwardAward1999Strega PrizeAward1996Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian RepublicAward1995Napoli PrizeAward1990Premio CampielloAward1962Prix FormentorAward1936Born13 November 1936

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Dacia Maraini's reading at the University of Connecticut, on March 11, 2019. Maraini travelled extensively in New England, lecturing at local Colleges and Universities.Dacia Maraini's reading at the University of Connecticut, on March 11, 2019. Maraini travelled extensively in New England, lecturing at local Colleges and Universities.

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Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class2017
Alabarda d'Oro Award2012
Strega Prize1999
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic1996
Napoli Prize1995
Premio Campiello1990
Prix Formentor1962

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Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.

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Italy
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
living
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Born 1936 · age 89

In common with Dacia

Alberto MoraviaAlso in Conjugal Love (1970)Catherine SpaakAlso in Diary of a Telephone Operator (1969)Pier Paolo PasoliniAlso in Arabian Nights (1974)Hanna SchygullaAlso in The Story of Piera (1983)Maria SchneiderAlso in Io sono mia (1977)Niels ArestrupAlso in The Future Is Woman (1984)

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