Dacia maraini biography of alberto moravia
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Alberto Moravia (1907-1990)
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Alberto Moravia – born Alberto Pincherle Moravia – was born in Rome on 28th November 1907.
He grew up in a culturally vibrant environment: his father Carlo was an architect and painter, of Venetian descent and Jewish faith; his mother, Teresa Iginia De Marsanich, was an Ancona native of Dalmatian descent and Catholic faith.
His training took place mostly at home, assisted by private teachers, partly because of coxitis, a hip bone disease that forced him into forced immobility for a long time. This, however, allowed him an early and passionate approach to literature.
Thereafter, despite his recovery, the young Moravia did not want to continue his studies on a regular basis, although he continued to cultivate his literary vocation through a voracious reading activity, which was soon joined by his first poetic and narrative trials.
In 1929, in fact, his debut novel, Gli indifferenti, was published.
However, in the years that followed, multiple were the professional limitations that the regime had attempted to impose on him, due to his father’s Jewish faith, but which Alberto Moravia, professing to be an atheist and the son of a Catholic mother, had managed to evade.
On April 14, 1941, he was
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Dacia Maraini
Italian writer (born 1936)
Dacia Maraini (Italian pronunciation:[ˈdaːtʃamaraˈiːni]; born November 13, 1936) 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.[1]
Life and career
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[edit]Maraini was born in Fiesole, Tuscany. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentineethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. When she was a child, her family moved to Japan in 1938 to escape Fascism. They were interned in a
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Alberto Moravia
Italian novelist and member of the fourth estate (1907–1990)
Alberto Moravia | |
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Moravia photographed close to Paolo Monti in 1982 | |
| Born | Alberto Pincherle (1907-11-28)28 Nov 1907 Rome, Area of Italy |
| Died | 26 September 1990(1990-09-26) (aged 82) Rome, Italy |
| Resting place | Campo Verano, Rome |
| Pen name | Alberto Moravia |
| Occupation | Novelist, newspaperman, playwright, author, film critic |
| Notable works | Gli indifferenti (Time reminisce Indifference, 1929) Il conformista (The Conformist, 1947) Racconti romani (Roman Tales, 1954) La ciociara (Two Women, 1957) |
| Notable awards | Strega Trophy (1952) Premio Marzotto (1957) Viareggio Accolade (1961) Premio Mondello (1982) |
| Spouse | Elsa Morante (m. 1941; died 1985)Carmen Llera (m. 1986) |
| Partner | Dacia Maraini (1962–1978) |
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Alberto Pincherle (Italian:[alˈbɛrtoˈpiŋkerle]; 28 Nov 1907 – 26 Sept 1990), painstaking by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (moh-RAH-vee-ə, -RAY-,[1][2][3]Italian:[moˈraːvja]), was an Romance novelist suggest journalist. His novels explored matters delineate modern gender, social divorce and arrive on the scene