Margaret Mazzantini
Margaret Mazzantini (born October 27, 1961 in Dublin ) is an Italian actress and writer .
life and work
Margaret Mazzantini is the daughter of the writer Carlo Mazzantini and the Irish painter Anne Donnelly . She grew up in Ireland and Tuscany. As an actress, she is involved in theater, film and television productions. However, she has gained more attention through her novel publications. Her first novel Il catino di zinco (German: Die Zinkwanne ) made it into the finalists of the Premio Campiello in 1994 ; and Non ti muovere (English: don't go away ), which was filmed in 2004 by her husband Sergio Castellitto , won the Premio Strega in 2002 . After a few years, she published her novel Venuto al mondo (English: The most beautiful word in the world ) in November 2008 , which deals with the history of Sarajevo since the 1984 Winter Olympics , during the city siege in the Bosnian War and the post-war period. The novel was awarded the Premio Campiello in 2009. In 2011 her novel Mare al mattino (English: The Sea in the Morning ) was published, in which she depicts the end of Italian colonialism in Libya and the end of Gaddafi rule based on two individual fates.
In her first role as a film actress, she appeared under the pseudonym Margaret Donnelly in Joe D'Amato's Man-Eater from 1980.
She lives in Rome with her husband, whom she married in 1987, and their four children .
Works
Original editions
- Il Catino Di Zinco . Marsilio Editori, Venezia 1994, ISBN 88-317-5897-7 .
- Manola . Mondadori, Milan 1998, ISBN 88-04-41016-7 .
- Non ti muovere . Mondadori, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-04-48947-2 .
- Zorro. Un eremita sul marciapiede . Mondadori, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-04-53516-4 .
- Venuto al mondo . Mondadori, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-04-57370-8 .
- Mare al mattino . Einaudi, Turin, 2011, ISBN 978-88-06-21113-4 .
German translations
- Manola . Novel. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-72597-6 .
- Do not go away . Novel. Frankfurter Verl.-Anst., Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-627-00096-X .
- At the end of the street . Novel. btb, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-73371-5 .
- The zinc tub . Novel. btb, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-73458-4 .
- The most beautiful word in the world . Novel. Dumont 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9536-6 .
- The sea in the morning . Novel. Dumont 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9684-4 .
Film adaptations
- Non Ti Muovere (Don't Move) . Directed by Sergio Castellitto (2004)
Awards
- 2002 Premio Strega for Non ti muovere
- 2009 Premio Campiello for Venuto al mondo
- 2003 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://librinews.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/il-premio-campiello-2009-a-margaret-mazzantini-con-venuto-al-mondo/
Web links
- Literature by and about Margaret Mazzantini in the catalog of the German National Library
- Margaret Mazzantini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Personal website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazzantini, Margaret |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Donnelly, Margaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |