Silvia Ballestra (born 1969) is an Italian writer. In 2006, she won the Rapallo Carige Prize.
Life Ballestra was born in Porto San Giorgio in 1969.
She was discovered by Pier Vittorio Tondelli and began publishing novels, short stories and essays since 1990.
Her debut book was Birthday of the IguanaSilvia Ballestra, Oxford Index, retrieved 5 April 2014 and it has been translated into several languages. From that book and the following book La guerra degli Antò was taken the script of a film, The Anto War by Riccardo Milani. She has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature. She has edited various translations from both French and English. She has worked with the newspaper L'Unità and several magazines and other newspapers. She has lived and worked in Milan.
In 2006, she won the Rapallo Carige Prize for La seconda Dora.List of winners, gruppocarige.it
Selected works Compleanno dell'iguana (Birthday of the Iguana) Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano, 1991. La guerra degli Antò, (The war of Anto) Einaudi, Torino, 1992. La giovinezza della signorina N.N. : una storia d'amore (The youthfulness of Miss NN), Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1998. Zona : scritture dal territorio, Zona, [Recco (Genova)], . La Seconda Dora Rizzoli, Milano, 2006. I giorni della Rotonda Rizzoli, Milano, 2009. Amiche mie : romanzo Mondadori, Milano, 2014. La nuova stagione Bompiani, Milano, Italia, 2019. La Sibilla : vita di Joyce Lussu, GLF Editori Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2022.
Anthologies Contribution to the anthology Papergang, under 25, 1990
The hills across the street. A trip around the life of Tullio Pericoli, Rizzoli, 2011.
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