Dacia Maraini in conversation with Lisa Sarti (Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY) and Laura Feola (the Graduate Center-Cuny).
Dacia Maraini is one of most transalted Italian writers in the world, (more than 20 countries) and has won several awards, including the Formentor Prize for L’età del malessere (1963); the Premio Fregene for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999).
Born November 13, 1936 in Fiesole, she is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer.