Dacia Maraini
Author of The Silent Duchess
About the Author
The Florentine Maraini published her first novel, "La Vacanza" (The Holiday), which treats the theme of contemporary female sexuality, in 1962. The next year, she was awarded the Formentor Prize for the novel "L'Era del Malessere" (The Age of Malaise). Later in the decade, she moved almost show more exclusively to theater, establishing the Teatro di Centocelle in Rome in 1969. Though she resumed prose writing, and also has published numerous collections of poetry, she is best known as one of the most important voices in contemporary Italian theater, a writer, director, and producer. In all of her works, Maraini's protaganists are women, often in conflict with men, who are seeking female solidarity. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Dacia Maraini
Trilogy of Life: The Decameron / Canterbury Tales / Arabian Nights (1971) — Screenwriter — 50 copies
Donne mie 8 copies
דור חסר-נחת 3 copies
A idade ingrata 3 copies
Maria Stuart : de geschiedenis van twee koninginnen : vrij ontleent aan Maria Stuart van Friedrich Schiller + De… (1982) 3 copies
Il ricatto a teatro e altre commedie 2 copies
L'età del malessere - Donne mie 2 copies
La donna perfetta 2 copies
Viva l'Italia 2 copies
Don Juan 2 copies
Den svære alder 1 copy
La notte dei giocattoli 1 copy
Brugheria 1 copy
Lunga cita di Mariana Ucrìa 1 copy
Stravaganza 1 copy
L'età del malessere 1 copy
Caccia alle steghe 1 copy
Dizionarietto quotidiano: da "amare" a "zonzo"/ Dacia Maraini ; 229 voci raccolte da Gioconda Marinelli (1997) 1 copy
Maraini Dacia 1 copy
Madre saginata 1 copy
I sogni di clitennestra 1 copy
Lezioni d'amore 1 copy
Cuore di mamma 1 copy
Menzogna felice 1 copy
Associated Works
The merits of women : wherein is revealed their nobility and their superiority to men (1600) — Foreword, some editions — 12 copies
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- Other names
- MARIANI, Dacia
- Birthdate
- 1936-11-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy
- Places of residence
- Japan
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Bagheria, Sicily, Italy
Rome, Italy - Education
- L'Istituto Statale della Ss. Annunziata, Florence, Italy
- Occupations
- novelist
poet
playwright
short-story writer
screenwriter - Relationships
- Moravia, Alberto (lover)
Pozzi, Lucio (ex-husband) - Organizations
- Teatro del Porcospino (theater company)
Teatro della Maddalena (theater company)
Tempo di letteratura (literary magazine) - Awards and honors
- Laurea magistrale Honoris Causa - Università degli Studi di Foggia (2010)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)
Premio Alabarda d'oro (2012) - Short biography
- Dacia Maraini spent her early childhood in Japan, where her father was conducting ethnological research. Due to her parents' anti-Fascist views, the family was interned in a concentration camp for several years during World War II. After the war, they returned to Italy and lived in Bagheria, Sicily at the ancestral home of her mother. Dacia studied in Palermo, Florence and Rome, and began her writing career with articles in literary magazines. Her first novel was published in 1962. She has since become one of Italy's most distinguished writers and playwrights, and co-founder of a theater company. She is active in feminist causes and as a commentator on politics and society, writing columns for newspapers and weeklies.
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Storie di cani per una bambina by Dacia Maraini
Che scriva un romanzo storico, un romanzo epistolare o una serie di racconti, Dacia Maraini ci incanta con la sua prosa ricca e precisa, con gli aneddoti familiari e con le sue osservazioni acute e piene di sensibilità
I picked up the Italian version of this book (L'Eta del Malessere) while on vacation in Paris last March. I still remember from my Italian text book in college that one of the characters in the "dialoghi lampi" portions was reading the latest book by Dacia Maraini and adored everything she had written. Wow, I thought, to end up in a text book destined for a foreign market, this writer had to be the human equivalent of champagne. I only recently discovered that Maraini was for over twenty years the live-in companion of Alberto Moravia, another glum Italian author who I favor. But all this has little to do with the book. The Age of Discontent is a very elegant, compact story of a young woman grappling with constrictive circumstances (parents, love, class, etc.) and eventually achieving release (of a sort) at the end. Enrica starts as a passive, somewhat self-destructive teenager, unconsciously responding to her mother's obession with wealth and status. Over the course of her last school year, she discovers the infructuousness of looking to others, men in particular but also women, to safeguard her own livelihood and happiness.… (more)
Sometimes long winded. Never really a story but just a report.
These are shocking short stories about mistreated women. Relentlessly, Maraini writes about various violent and sexual abuse to women in Italy. Even though this is written as fiction, it is unfortunately God's truths, which happen far too often in Europe, but also in all other parts of the world. There are grievances, which usually remain anonymous, people look away and the victims, psychically caught in their misery, can not resist.
Unfortunately, it also shows that these women are often not believed, especially when the offender is an 'important' personality or someone with money. Neither the police nor the courts are behind the victim. The investigations in these cases are often performed only superficially.
The story about the sexually abused children made me very sad and angry. I had great difficulty reading it to the end.
Maraini writes clearly and directly without something to gloss over.… (more)
Unfortunately, it also shows that these women are often not believed, especially when the offender is an 'important' personality or someone with money. Neither the police nor the courts are behind the victim. The investigations in these cases are often performed only superficially.
The story about the sexually abused children made me very sad and angry. I had great difficulty reading it to the end.
Maraini writes clearly and directly without something to gloss over.… (more)
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