Francesca Sanvitale (17 May 1928 – 9 February 2011) was an Italian novelist and journalist, "one of Italy's most renowned contemporary authors".Simon Wright, 'Francesca Sanvitale', in Augustus Pallotta et al., eds., Italian Novelists Since World War II. Columbia: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997, p. 220-229. Dictionary of Literary Biography 177.
Life Born in Milan, Francesca Sanvitale lived in Florence for two decades, gaining a degree there in Italian literature before moving to Rome in 1961.Dawn Green, 'Francesca Sanvitale', in Jane Eldridge Miller, ed., Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, p.289 She wrote television plays and contributed to cultural programmes for RAI.'Francesca Sanvitale (born 1929)', in Claire Buck, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, p. 989
Her first novel was Il cuore borghese (1972). Madre e figlia (1980), a semi-autobiographical novel about an intense relationship between a mother and her illegitimate child, won both the Fregene Prize and the Pozzale Luigi Russo Prize. The protagonist in Sanvitale's third novel, L'uomo del parco (1984), attempted to find the truth about herself through psychoanalysis. As well as other novels, Sanvitale collected short stories in La realtà è un dono (1987) and Separazioni (1997). L'inizio è in autunno won the Viareggio Prize in 2008.Premio Viareggio: trionfa Francesca Sanvitale con il romanzo "L'inizio è in autunno" , Italia News, 29 August 2008
She died in Rome.
Works Il cuore borghese [The bourgeois heart], 1972 Madre e figlia, 1980 L'uomo del parco: romanzo [The man in the heart], 1984 La realtà è un dono: racconti [Reality is a gift: stories], 1987 Mettendo a fuoco : pagine di letteratura e realtà, 1988 (tr.) Il diavolo in corpo by Raymond Radiguet, 1989. Translated from the French Le Diable au corps (1923) Verso Paola, 1991 Il figlio dell'Impero, 1993 Tre favole dell'ansia e dell'ombra, 1994 Separazioni [Separations], 1997 Camera ottica: pagine di letteratura e realtà, 1999 L'ultima casa prima del bosco, 2003 L'inizio è in autunno, 2008
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