Melania Mazzucco

Melania Gaia Mazzucco (born 6 October 1966)^[1] is an Italian author. She is a recipient of the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.

Education and career

Mazzucco graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 1990 and the Sapienza University of Rome with a degree in History of Modern and Contemporary Literature in 1992. In the 1990s, she wrote several screenplays before publishing her first novel Il bacio della Medusa in 1996.^[1]

Her 2003 novel Vita was awarded the Strega Prize.^[2] The novel tells the story of two children from a rural Italian village, Diamante aged twelve and Vita aged nine, who emigrate to New York. It was translated into English by Virginia Jewiss.^[3]

A film adaptation of Mazzucco's 2005 novel Un giorno perfetto was released in 2008. It was directed by Ferzan Özpetek^[4] and was entered in the 65th Venice International Film Festival.^[5]

In 2008, Mazzucco published the first of two volumes on the Renaissance painter Tintoretto called La lunga attesa dell’angelo which won a Bagutta Prize. The second volume, Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli: storia di una famiglia veneziana, was published in 2009.^[1]

Bibliography

• Il bacio della Medusa (1996) ISBN 8880890921
• La camera di Baltus (1998) ISBN 8880893351
• Lei così amata (2000) ISBN 8817863114
• Vita (2003) ISBN 8817871621
• Un giorno perfetto (2005) ISBN 8817007277
• La lunga attesa dell’angelo (2008) ISBN 8817025852
• Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli: storia di una famiglia veneziana (2009) ISBN 8817030384
• Limbo (2012) ISBN 8806209388
• Il bassotto e la Regina (2012) ISBN 8806214462
• Sei come sei (2013) ISBN 8806209469
• Io sono con te: Storia di Brigitte (2016) ISBN 8806232533

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