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Natalia Ginzburg
Natalia Levi Ginzburg was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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politics · Italian author (1916–1991) · writer · politician · playwright · poet · translator · author · preface author · also Natalia Ginzburg, Alessandra Tornimparte, Natalia Levi, Natalia Levi Ginzburg, Ginzburg
Born 14 July 1916 · Died 7 October 1991 · Q275985
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2025· 2 entries
Tehran Times: Natalia Ginzburg’s “The Advertisement” on stage at Tehran’s City Theater
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2023· 1 entry
nytimes.com: For Natalia Ginzburg, ‘The Road to the City’ Was Strewn With Hurdles
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2021· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Natalia Ginzburg and Complete Book Reviews
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2020· 2 entries
Salon: Natalia Ginzburg
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The New York Review of Books issued Ginzburg's novellas Valentino and Sagittarius translated into English by Avril Bardoni in 1987, in a single volume
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg review – powerful personal essays
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1991· 1 entry
Died 1991-10-07.
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1987· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1987–1991).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Bagutta Prize (1984).
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1983· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic (1983–1987).
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Was elected to Parliament from Rome as an independent politician
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1964· 1 entry
Played the role of Mary of Bethany in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Strega Prize (1963).
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1952· 1 entry
Awarded Charles Veillon prize in the Italian language (1952).
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1950· 2 entries
When Ginzburg married Gabriele Baldini and moved to Rome, she entered the most prolific period of her literary career
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Ginzburg married again, to Gabriele Baldini, a scholar of English literature
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1942· 1 entry
During Fascist Italy's most antisemitic period, when Jews were banned from publishing
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1938· 1 entry
Married Leone Ginzburg, and they had three children together, Carlo (who became a historian), Andrea and Alessandra
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1933· 1 entry
Levi published her first story, "I bambini", in the magazine Solaria
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1916· 2 entries
Born 1916-07-14.
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Spent most of her youth in Turin with her family, as her father in 1919 took a position with the University of Turin
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