Wanda Marasco
Wanda Marasco (born May 6, 1953 in Naples ) is an Italian writer.
Life
Wanda Marasco completed her studies in philosophy with a laureate and then studied acting and theater directing at the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica "Silvio D'Amico" in Rome with Ruggero Jacobbi (1920–1981). Marasco became a teacher for lettere at the vocational school (Istituto Tecnico Industriale) Galileo Ferraris in the poor district of Scampia in Naples.
Marasco published her first volume of poetry Gli strumenti scordati in 1977 . She has received various literary prizes, including the Premio Montale in 1997 for the short story Voc e Poè , the Premio Bagutta Opera Prima in 2003 for the novel L'arciere d'infanzia , and in 2004 the Premio Bagutta . The novel Il genio dell'abbandono about the painter Vincenzo Gemito came on the longlist of the Premio Strega in 2015 and was staged in the Teatro Stabile di Napoli. In 2017 her novel La compagnia delle anime finte was shortlisted for the Premio Strega, and it was also translated into German.
Works (selection)
- Gli strumenti scordati . Florence: Vallecchi, 1977
- L'attrito agli specchi . Foggia: Bastogi, 1979
- Deus Inversus . Manduria: Lacaita, 1980
- Le fate ei detriti . Manduria: Lacaita, 1988
- Voc e Poè . Pasian di Prato: Campanotto, 1997
- Madre e figlia . Salerno: Ripostes Scuola, 1994
- L'arciere d'infanzia . Foreword by Giovanni Raboni . Lecce: Manni, 2003 ISBN 88-8176-335-4
- Antonio Spagnuolo, Stelvio Di Spigno (ed.): Da Napoli / Verso . Naples: Kairòs, 2007
- La fatica dello stormo . Milan: La vita felice, 2013. ISBN 9788877995070
- Il genio dell'abbandono . Milan: Neri Pozza, 2015
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La Compagnia delle anime finte . Milan: Neri Pozza, 2017 ISBN 978-88-545-1393-8
- On the hill of Capodimonte . Translation by Annette Kopetzki . Vienna: Zsolnay, 2018
literature
- Maike Albath : Room made of ashes . Review, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 11, 2018, p. 18
Web links
- Literature by and about Wanda Marasco in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Wanda Marasco at perlentaucher.de
- Wanda Marasco , at Hanser's
- Wanda Marasco , at premio strega, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marasco, Wanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |