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Revision as of 10:21, 15 August 2018
Fausta Terni Cialente (1898-1994) was an Italian novelist and journalist.[1]
Life
Fausta Cialente was born in Cagliari on 29 November 1898. She was the second child of Alfredo Cialente, an army officer originally from the Abruzzo region in central Italy and Elsa Wieselberger who had trained as a soprano and came from a musical family in Trieste.[2] Fausta's early life was marked by upheaval as the family followed the movements of her father. Marrying the composer Enrico Terni in 1921, she settled in Alexandria, Egypt until the end of World War II. From 1940 she wrote antifascist pamphlets and made daily broadcasts from Radio Cairo against the Fascist regime in Italy. In 1947 she returned to Italy, living there until moving to England in 1984.[3]
Though her first novel Natalia won the Dieci Savi Prize, the book (treating the lesbian relationship of an unhappily married woman) was suppressed by the Fascists. Many of Cialente's subsequent stories were set in Egypt. "The position of her female characters precoccupies Cialente throughout her work, not least in the semi-autobiographical Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger",[1] which won the Strega Prize.[3]
Works
- Cialente, Fausta (1930). Natalia: romanzo (in Italian). Rome: Sapientia, Edizioni dei Dieci. OCLC 955167272.
- Cortile a Cleopatra [Courtyard to Cleopatra], 1936.
- Cialente, Fausta (1961). Ballata levantina (in Italian). Milan: Feltrinelli. OCLC 977921413. Translated by Isabel Quigly as The Levantines, 1963
- Cialente, Fausta (1976). Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger: romanzo (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. OCLC 247228244.
- Un inverno freddissimo [A Very Cold Winter], 1966
References
- ^ a b 'Cialente, Fausta Terni', in Buck, Claire, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, 1992, p.422.
- ^ Ruggiero, Nunzio (2017). "CIALENTE, Fausta". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ a b Giuliana Minghelli, 'Cialente, Fausta', in Jane Eldridge Miller, ed., Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, 2001, p.66
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