Rosella Postorino Explained
Rosella Postorino |
Birth Date: | 1978 |
Birth Place: | Reggio Calabria, Italy |
Occupation: | Writer and translator |
Notableworks: | At the Wolf's Table |
Language: | Italian |
Nationality: | Italian |
Years Active: | 2004–present |
Rosella Postorino (Reggio Calabria, 1978) is an Italian author. In 2013, she won the International Prize Città di Penne, and in 2018 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize and the Premio Campiello.[1] [2]
Life
Born in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, in 1978, Postorino was raised in San Lorenzo al Mare, Liguria, northern Italy. In 2001 she moved to Rome.
Postorino published her first story "In una capsula" (In a Capsule) in 2004 in the anthology Ragazze che dovresti conoscere (Girls you Should Know). In 2007 she released her first novel, La stanza di sopra (The Room Upstairs).[3]
Her 2018 novel Le assaggiatrici (At the Wolf's Table) won the 56th Campiello Prize,[4] the Luigi Russo Prize,[5] the Rapallo Prize[6] and the Premio Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi.
Postorino has also translated and edited works by Marguerite Duras.[7]
Works
Novels
- La stanza di sopra, Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2007
- L'estate che perdemmo Dio, Turin: Einaudi, 2009
- Il corpo docile, Turin: Einaudi, 2013
- Le assaggiatrici, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2018, published in English as At the Wolf's Table, trans. Leah Janeczko, New York: Flatiron books, 2019 .
Nonfiction
- Il mare in salita, Rome – Bari: GLF editori Laterza, 2011
Anthology
- Ragazze che dovresti conoscere, Turin: Einaudi, 2004
- Working for paradise, Milan: Bompiani, 2009
Translations
Bibliography
- Anticorpi: dialoghi con Emma Dante e Rosella Postorino di Luisa Cavaliere, Napoli, Liguori, 2010
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: La biografia di Postorino Rosella . wuz.it . 6 April 2019.
- Web site: Intervista a Rosella Postorino . sulromanzo.it . 10 September 2009. 6 April 2019.
- Web site: Rosella Postorino: il carcere dentro . letteratura.rai.it . 6 April 2019.
- Web site: Premio Campiello, stravince Rosella Postorino. 15 September 2018. la Repubblica. 6 April 2019.
- Web site: Premio Pozzale 2018, vincono Di Cesare, Falco e Postorino: migrazioni, assaggiatrici e lavori salvifici. 8 July 2018. gonews.it. 6 April 2019.
- Web site: Rapallo: premio scrittrice, vince Rosella Postorino. 4 August 2018. levantenews.it. 6 April 2019.
- Web site: I docenti dei corsi di Oblique . oblique.it . 6 April 2019.