Lalla Romano
Lalla Romano | |
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Born | Graziella Romano (1906-11-11)11 November 1906 Demonte |
Died | 26 June 2001(2001-06-26) (aged 94) Milan |
Language | Italian |
Nationality | Italian |
Genre | novelist, poet, and journalist |
Graziella "Lalla" Romano (11 November 1906 in Demonte – 26 June 2001 in Milan) was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.
Life and work
Romano was born as Graziella Romano in Demonte in 1906 from a noteworthy Piedmontese family. Her great-uncle was the mathematician and glottologist Giuseppe Peano. Romano was originally interested in painting. She attended the University of Turin where she studied with art historian Lionello Venturi before Cesare Pavese piqued her interest in writing. She graduated with a degree in literature and then worked as a librarian and teacher. In those years she started dating Giovanni Ermiglia, a philosophy student from Sanremo, and wrote several poems dedicated to him which have been later collected together with other previous unpublished texts in Poesie per Giovanni (2007).[1] During World War II she joined with the Resistance. After the war, she became noted for writings that drew on personal and family experiences.[2]
Legacy
Romano continued to paint throughout her life. In 2009, a retrospective of her paintings was held in Aosta.[3] Her former house in Milan has been converted into a museum to preserve her work.[4]
Partial bibliography
Novels
- Le metamorfosi, Turin, 1951;
- Maria, Turin, 1953;
- Tetto murato, Turin, 1957; (translated by Brian Robert Moore as A Silence Shared, 2023)
- Diario di Grecia, Padua, 1960;
- L'uomo che parlava solo, Turin, 1961;
- La penombra che abbiamo attraversato, Turin, 1964;
- Le parole tra noi leggere, Turin, 1969; (winner of the Strega Prize)
- L'ospite, Turin, 1973 ;
- Una giovinezza inventata, Turin, 1979;
- Inseparabile, Turin, 1981;
- Nei mari estremi, Turin, 1987;
- Un sogno del Nord, Turin, 1989.
Poetry
- Fiore, Turin, 1941;
- L'autunno, Milan, 1955;
- Giovane è il tempo, Turin, 1974.
- Poesie per Giovanni, Ventimiglia, 2007.
Notes
- ^ Direzione generale per le Biblioteche, gli Istituti Culturali e il Diritto d'autore. "Lalla Romano e la cultura francese. Conferenza" (in Italian). Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
- ^ Obituary from "The Independent"
- ^ "Lalla Romano: la sua passione per la pittura in mostra". Val d'Aosta. 6 August 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ^ "Associazione amici di Lalla Romano".
References
- Alba della Fazia Amoia (1996). "Lalla Romano: A Narrator of Withdrawal". 20th-century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience. SIU Press. pp. 39–. ISBN 978-0-8093-2027-1.
- Katharina M. Wilson (1991). "Lalla Romano". An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1061–. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.
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- 1947 Ennio Flaiano
- 1948 Vincenzo Cardarelli
- 1949 Giovanni Battista Angioletti
- 1950 Cesare Pavese
- 1951 Corrado Alvaro
- 1952 Alberto Moravia
- 1953 Massimo Bontempelli
- 1954 Mario Soldati
- 1955 Giovanni Comisso
- 1956 Giorgio Bassani
- 1957 Elsa Morante
- 1958 Dino Buzzati
- 1959 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- 1960 Carlo Cassola
- 1961 Raffaele La Capria
- 1962 Mario Tobino
- 1963 Natalia Ginzburg
- 1964 Giovanni Arpino
- 1965 Paolo Volponi
- 1966 Michele Prisco
- 1967 Anna Maria Ortese
- 1968 Alberto Bevilacqua
- 1969 Lalla Romano
- 1970 Guido Piovene
- 1971 Raffaello Brignetti
- 1972 Giuseppe Dessì
- 1973 Manlio Cancogni
- 1974 Guglielmo Petroni
- 1975 Tommaso Landolfi
- 1976 Fausta Cialente
- 1977 Fulvio Tomizza
- 1978 Ferdinando Camon
- 1979 Primo Levi
- 1980 Vittorio Gorresio
- 1981 Umberto Eco
- 1982 Goffredo Parise
- 1983 Mario Pomilio
- 1984 Pietro Citati
- 1985 Carlo Sgorlon
- 1986 Maria Bellonci
- 1987 Stanislao Nievo
- 1988 Gesualdo Bufalino
- 1989 Giuseppe Pontiggia
- 1990 Sebastiano Vassalli
- 1991 Paolo Volponi
- 1992 Vincenzo Consolo
- 1993 Domenico Rea
- 1994 Giorgio Montefoschi
- 1995 Mariateresa Di Lascia
- 1996 Alessandro Barbero
- 1997 Claudio Magris
- 1998 Enzo Siciliano
- 1999 Dacia Maraini
- 2000 Ernesto Ferrero
- 2001 Domenico Starnone
- 2002 Margaret Mazzantini
- 2003 Melania Gaia Mazzucco
- 2004 Ugo Riccarelli
- 2005 Maurizio Maggiani
- 2006 Sandro Veronesi
- 2007 Niccolò Ammaniti
- 2008 Paolo Giordano
- 2009 Tiziano Scarpa
- 2010 Antonio Pennacchi
- 2011 Edoardo Nesi
- 2012 Alessandro Piperno
- 2013 Walter Siti
- 2014 Francesco Piccolo
- 2015 Nicola Lagioia
- 2016 Edoardo Albinati
- 2017 Paolo Cognetti
- 2018 Helena Janeczek
- 2019 Antonio Scurati
- 2020 Sandro Veronesi
- 2021 Emanuele Trevi
- 2022 Mario Desiati