Rosetta Loy (15 May 1931 – 1 October 2022) was an Italian writer. She was the recipient of the

Rapallo Carige Prize The Rapallo Carige Prize ( it, Premio Rapallo Carige per la donna scrittrice) is an Italian literary award, established in 1985 by the Municipality of Rapallo and the Carige Bank (''Banca Carige''). The award is intended to promote writing by wom ...

for ''Le strade di polvere'' (''The Dusty Roads'') in 1988. Born Rosetta Provera, she was the youngest of four children of a Piedmontese father and a mother from Rome. 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''.

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.

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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 {{Italy-writer-stub