Fabrizia Ramondino

Fabrizia Ramondino (1987)

Fabrizia Ramondino (born August 31, 1936 in Naples , † June 23, 2008 in Gaeta ) was an Italian writer , screenwriter , translator and literary critic . Her oeuvre includes novels, short stories, poems, scripts and plays as well as essays and reviews. It was speculated that she also published her works under the pseudonym Elena Ferrante , which was refuted when books appeared under this pseudonym even after her death.

Life

Fabrizia Ramondino was born in Naples in 1936. As the daughter of a diplomat , she grew up in Palma de Mallorca , Naples and France. She studied German literature at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Romance studies in France.

She returned to Italy in 1957, where she was active in the New Left in the 1960s . From 1966 to 1982 she worked as a teacher in Naples. Then she became a freelance writer .

In 1981 her first work Althénopis was published. Many of her works have been translated into German by Maja Pflug , who was awarded the German-Italian translation prize for this, among other things .

Ramondino drowned in the sea near Gaeta in 2008 at the age of 71.

Works (selection)

Althénopis , Zurich 1986
Almond trees in bloom , Zurich [et al.] 2004
In the mirror of an island , Zurich [et al.] 1999
Every being screams in silence , Zurich [among others] 2002
The cat and other stories , Zurich [et al.] 2006
"Not very reliable at home ..." , Zurich 1992
A day and a half , Zurich 1989
La via , Zurich [et al.] 2010
The birds of Narcís , Zurich 1987

Award

1999 Premio Grinzane Cavour

Web links

Commons : Fabrizia Ramondino - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Fabrizia Ramondino in the catalog of the German National Library
Fabrizia Ramondino in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Short biography and reviews of works by Fabrizia Ramondino at perlentaucher.de
Fabrizia Ramon Dino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Publications by Fabrizia Ramondino in the Opac des SBN

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Haas: Who is behind Elena Ferrante and her brilliant novels? . Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 1, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
^ Italian author Fabrizia Ramondino has died . Der Standard , June 30, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Ramondino, Fabrizia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian writer, screenwriter, translator and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Naples
DATE OF DEATH	June 23, 2008
Place of death	Gaeta

[1] Franz Haas: Who is behind Elena Ferrante and her brilliant novels? . Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 1, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2017.

[2] Italian author Fabrizia Ramondino has died . Der Standard , June 30, 2008. Retrieved April 9, 2017.