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Dacia Maraini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːtʃa maraˈiːni]; born November 13, 1936) is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels.
Nasce a Firenze nel 1936, primogenita dell' antropologo, orientalista e scrittore fiorentino Fosco Maraini e della pittrice e gallerista palermitana Topazia Alliata, quest'ultima appartenente al ramo siciliano dell'antico casato pisano degli Alliata, ovverosia gli Alliata di Salaparuta.
Dacia Maraini. The daughter of well-known ethnologist Fosco Maraini, Dacia Maraini was born in 1936 and spent her early childhood in Japan where her father went to conduct research. Because of her parents’ anti-Fascist views, the family was confined to a concentration camp during the final years of the war.
Dacia Maraini is a prolific and acclaimed author of plays and novels, especially on women's issues. She was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2011, which honours a living writer's overall achievement in fiction.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan.
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Mar 28, 2008 · The Italian writer Dacia Maraini talks about her novel Colomba, a mystery set in an imaginary town in Abruzzo, where she spends her holidays. She reflects on the themes of disappearance, feminism, and the marginality of women in Italian history.
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Dacia Maraini is a well-known Italian writer whose work focuses on women's issues. The author of numerous plays, poetry collections, and novels, she is the recipient of many awards, most recently the Premio Strega for Buio (1999), and in April 2011 she was named a finalist for the fourth Man Booker International Prize .
