biography
pronunciation:
[maraeenee]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Florence, Tuscany, NC Italy. She became known with the novel L'età del malessere (1963), and her subsequent work deals with existential themes, usually related to women's status in modern society. Her works include the collection of poems Crudeltà all'aria aperta (1966), the novels Memorie di una ladra (1972), Isolina (1985), Cercando Emma (1993), and the plays Una donna perfetta (1975) and Lezione d'amore (1982). In 1990 she won the Campiello literary prize for the novel La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa. |
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