Dacia Maraini

One of Italy's foremost women writers, DACIA MARAINI is the author of more than fifty books, including novels, plays, collections of poetry, and critical essays. Her second novel, The Age of Discontent, won the international the Prix Formentor, and The Silent Duchess received one of Italy's highest literary honors, the Premio Campiello. Among her other novels available in English are Woman at War and the recent Voices. Several of her works have been adapted for the stage or screen, and she herself has directed both plays and films. Early in her career, Maraini founded the literary review Tempo di Letteratura; she later established an all-women's theater group, Teatro della Maddalena, and became known as a theorist and activist in the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s. Born in Florence, Dacia Maraini currently resides in Rome.

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