Rosetta Loy

Rosetta Loy (* 1931 in Rome , Italy ) is an Italian writer .

Life

Rosetta Loy is the daughter of an engineer from Piedmont and a Roman woman. She is the youngest of four siblings and grew up in a wealthy Catholic bourgeois family. She wrote her first little stories at the age of nine, but it was not until she was over 40 that her first novel La bicicletta was published by Einaudi in Turin in 1974 , for which she received the Premio Viareggio Opera Prima . Other novels, some of which have won awards, have been published in Italy over the past 30 years and have also been translated into other languages.

honors and awards

• 1974: for La bicicletta , Premio Viareggio Opera Prima
• 1988: for Le strade di polvere , Premio Campiello
• 1988: for the same work the Premio Viareggio and the Premio Supercampiello , the Premio Città di Catanzaro
• 1989: again the Premio Rapallo for the same work
• 1990: Premio Montalcino for the same novel
• 1996: for Cioccolata da Hanselmann , Premio Grinzane Cavour
• 2005: for Nero è l'albero dei ricordi, azzurra l'aria , Premio Bagutta

Publications

• Gli anni fra cane e lupo - 1969–1994. Il raconto dell'Italia ferita a morte . Chiarelettere editore srl, Milan 2013, ISBN 978-88-6190-476-7 .
• La prima mano . Rizzoli, Milan 2009.
• Nero è l'albero dei ricordi, azzurra l'aria . Einaudi, Turin 2004.
• Ahi, Paloma . Einaudi, Torino 2000, ISBN 88-06157140 .
• Cioccolata da Hanselmann . Rizzoli, Milan 1997.
  • German: Chocolate at Hanselmann . Piper, Munich / Zurich 1998.
• La parola ebreo . Einaudi, Turin 1997 and 2002.
  • German: Via Flaminia 21 . My childhood in fascist Italy. Translated from the Italian by Maja Pflug, Piper 1998 and 2001 (p.)
• Sogni d'inverno . Mondadori, Milan 1995.
  • German by Maja Pflug : winter dreams , novel. Arche, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7160-2162-8 .
• Le strade di polvere . Einaudi, Turin 1987.
  • German, from the Italian by Maja Pflug: Streets of dust . Luchterhand, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-630-71004-2 .
• All'insaputa della notte . Garzanti, Milan 1984.
  • German: In the uncertain of the night , Arche Verlag, Zurich 1991.
• L'estate di Letuchè . Rizzoli, Milan 1982.
• La porta dell'acqua . Einaudi, Turin 1976; reissued: 2001 Rizzoli, Milan.
  • German by Maja Pflug : The gate of water , Roman. Luchterhand, Hamburg / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-630-71004-2 .
• La bicicletta . Einaudi, Turin 1974.

Web links

• Biography of the writer