Rosetta Loy (15 May 1931 – 1 October 2022) was an Italian writer.
She was the recipient of the
Rapallo Carige Prize for ''Le strade di polvere'' (''The Dusty Roads'') in 1988.
Biography
Born Rosetta Provera, she was the youngest of four children of a Piedmontese father and a mother from
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
. She wrote her first story at the age of nine, but her real literary vocation manifested itself towards the age of twenty-five. However, she had to wait until 1974 for her first publication, ''The Bicycle''.
In 1992, Loy temporarily left Einaudi, with which she had published her most acclaimed work four years earlier and published the semi-autobiographical novel ''Sogni d'inverno'' for
Mondadori
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore () is the biggest publishing company in Italy.
History
The company was founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by 18-year-old Arnoldo Mondadori who began his publishing career with the publication of the magazine ''Luce!''. In 19 ...
.
Personal life and death
She was married for thirty years to Beppe Loy, with whom she had four children.
She died of a heart attack at her home in Rome, aged 91. She was buried in the cemetery of
Mirabello Monferrato, the Piedmontese town where ''The Dusty Roads'' was set and where her father's house is still located.
Works
* ''La biciclett''a,
Turin
Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...
, Einaudi, 1974.
* ''La porta dell'acqua'', Turin, Einaudi, 1976.
* ''L'estate di Letuche'',
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
, Rizzoli, 1982.
* ''All'insaputa della notte'', Milan, Garzanti, 1984.
* ''Le strade di polvere'', Turin, Einaudi, 1987.
* ''Sogni d'inverno'', Milan, Mondadori, 1992.
* ''Cioccolata da Hanselmann'', Milan, Rizzoli, 1995.
* ''La parola ebre''o, Turin, Einaudi, 1997. (''First Words: A Childhood in Fascist Italy'', translated into English by Gregory Conti, New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2000)
* ''Ahi, Paloma,'' Turin, Einaudi, 2000.
* ''Nero è l'albero dei ricordi, azzurra l'aria'', Turin, Einaudi, 2004.
* ''La prima mano'', Milan, Rizzoli, 2009;
* ''Cuori infranti'', Rome, Nottetempo 2010;
* ''Gli anni fra cane e lupo.'' 1969–1994. Il racconto dell'Italia ferita a morte, Milan, Chiarelettere, 2013;
* ''Forse'', Turin, Einaudi, 2016;
* ''Cesare'', Turin, Einaudi, 2018,
ISBN 978-88-0623-850-6.
References
1931 births
2022 deaths
Italian women novelists
20th-century Italian women writers
20th-century Italian novelists
21st-century Italian women writers
21st-century Italian novelists
Writers from Rome
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