Bianca Pitzorno Explained

Bianca Pitzorno (pronounced as /it/; born 12 August 1942) is an Italian writer best known for her books for children and young adults. She is considered one of Italy's most important authors in that field.^[1]

She was born in Sassari. She studied archaeology and classical literature and then began a career producing programs for television. She began writing books for girls when she was 28. She also writes plays, screenplays and lyrics for songs. Pitzorno lives and works in Milan.^[2]

During the 1970s, she was head of children's programming for RAI television. Later, she worked on the children's television series ("The blue tree").^[3]

Her books have been translated into many languages including French, German, Spanish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, Korean and Japanese. Her children's stories blend contemporary reality with elements of magic.^[4]

She has translated into Italian works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Sylvia Plath, David Grossman, Tove Jansson and Soledad Cruz Guerra.^[5]

Pitzorno is a UNICEF Goodwill ambassador. She helped establish a library project in Cuba which makes literature in Italian and literature translated from Italian available to Cuban children. She also helps provide Cuban literature translated into Italian to youth in Italy.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Awards

• dell’Infanzia
• Premio Castello di Sanguinetto
• Cento Prize^[6]
• finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award^[7]

Selected works

• Clorofilla dal cielo blu ("Chlorophyll from a blue sky") (1974), also adapted for film
• La bambola dell'alchimista ("The alchemist's doll") (1988)
• ("Listen to my heart") (1991)
• ("The secret voice") (1998)
• Una scuola per Lavinia ("A school for Lavinia") (2005)

Works translated into English

• The House in the Tree, Bloomsbury USA, 2017
• The littlest witch, Catnip Publishing, London 2018
• Lavinia and the magic ring, Catnip Publishing, London 2018
• The Seamstress of Sardinia, Text Publishing Company, Melbourne 2023.

Notes and References

1. News: In libreria "Le storie di Bianca Pitzorno", ragazza di 70 anni . La Nuova . August 9, 2012 . it.
2. Bianca Pitzorno: Italy ★ Author . Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature. 2012 . 10.1353/bkb.2012.0035 . Kokkola . Lydia . 50 . 2 . 32 . 143123424 .
3. Book: Zipes, Jack . The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales . 768 . 2015 . 978-0191004162.
4. Book: Haase, Donald . The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P . 747 . 2008 . 978-0313334436.
5. Web site: Bianca Pitzorno . Ute Körner.
6. Web site: Anno 1988 - Edizione X . Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento . it.
7. Web site: Bianca Pitzorno - Finalist . IBBY . 2018-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180722070126/http://www.ibby.org/awards-activities/awards/hans-christian-andersen-awards/single/?L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=23&cHash=13efe1e0af8fd47805c22213262f9f6e . 2018-07-22 . dead .