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Natalia Ginzburg


Italy (1916 - 1991)

Natalia Ginzburg was born in Sicily and is regarded as one of the most important Italian writers of the twentieth century. She wrote dozens of essays, plays, and novels, including Voices in the Evening, All our Yesterdays, and Family Lexicon, which won the prestigious Strega Prize in 1963. She was involved in activism throughout her life, and served in the Italian parliament from 1983-1987.
 
 
Novels
   Voices in the Evening (1961)
   Family Lexicon (1963)
     aka Family Sayings
   No Way (1974)
   Dear Michael (1975)
   All Our Yesterdays (1982)
   The Manzoni Family (1987)
   The City and the House (1987)
   The Things We Used to Say (1997)
   Happiness As Such (2019)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Dry Heart (1952)
   Sagittarius (2023)
   Valentino (2023)
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Natalia Ginzburg recommends
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Last Summer in the City (1970)
Gianfranco Calligarich
"The true quality of this novel is the way it enlightens, with a desperate clearness, a relationship between a man and a city, that is, between crowd and loneliness."

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