Natalia Ginzburg - Life, Literary works

Writer, born in Palermo, Sicily, S Italy. She was interned by the Fascists (1940–3) together with husband Leone Ginzburg. She published her first short stories in the review Solaria, and progressed to novels that have as their main themes family life and memories of the past, such as Tutti i nostri ieri (1952), Lessico famigliare (1963), Caro Michele (1973), and La famiglia Manzoni (1983). Her plays include Ti ho sposato per allegria (1965) and L'intervista (1988).

Natalia Ginzburg née Levi (July 14, 1916, Palermo—October 7, 1991, Rome) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics, and philosophy.

Life

Born in Sicily, she spent most of her youth in Turin.

Ginzburg's father was Jewish, and her mother was Catholic. Although Ginzburg was able to live relatively free of harassment during World War II, her husband was forced to spend much of this period in a village in Abruzzo. Opponents of the Fascist regime, she and her husband secretly went to Rome and edited an anti-Fascist newspaper, until Leone Ginzburg was arrested and murdered in jail in 1944.

Ginzburg spent much of the 1940s working for the publisher Einaudi in Turin; This was the beginning of the most prolific period of Ginzburg's literary career, during which she published most of the works for which she is best known.

She played the role Mary of Bethany in Pasolini's The Gospel According to St. Matthew in 1964.

Involved throughout her life in politics as an activist and polemicist.

Literary works

La strada che va in città (1942) È stato così (1947; Family Sayings 1967) Mai devi domandarmi (1970) Caro Michele (1973) Vita immaginaria (1974) La famiglia Manzoni (1983) La città e la casa (1984;