Luisa Adorno | |
Birth Name: | Mila Curradi |
Birth Date: | 2 August 1921 |
Birth Place: | Pisa, Italy |
Death Place: | Rome, Italy |
Nationality: | Italian |
Occupation: | Writer |
Awards: | Premio Alpi Apuane Premio Prato-Europa Premio nazionale letterario Pisa Viareggio Prize Premio Vittorini |
Luisa Adorno, pseudonym of Mila Curradi (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2021) was an Italian writer and teacher.[1]
Adorno spent her career as a secondary school teacher. She collaborated with the magazines Il Mondo, , L'Indice dei libri del mese, Abitare, and . In 2005, she was a judge for the Premio Brancati.
In 1963, Adorno was awarded the Premio Alpi Apuane. In 1985, she was given the Premio Prato-Europa and the for Le dorate stanze.[3 Italian] In 1990, she won the Viareggio Prize for Arco di luminara.[2] In 1999, a collection of her works was housed in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, where it remains to this day.[3] That same year, she was awarded the Premio Vittorini for Sebben che siamo donne.[4] In 2001, she became a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Luisa Adorno died in Rome on 12 July 2021 at the age of 99.[5]