Dacia Maraini, Italian novelist, playwright, poet and orator, has campaigned on a vast number of issues including women’s rights, abuse, emigration, discrimination, politics, the Holocaust, and anti-fascism. Winner of prestigious Italian literature awards, finalist for the Man Booker and nominee for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, her books, such as the best-selling The Silent Duchess, have been translated into 22 languages.
Daughter of a Sicilian Princess, Dacia Maraini was born in Tuscany but moved with her family to Japan in 1938 to escape fascism. They were interned in a Japanese concentration camp from 1943 to 1946, inspiring the documentary I Was Born Travelling which also revisited the legendary journeys around the world with her partner, the writer Alberto Moravia, and her close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas.
Dacia Maraini will be talking about her life and work with Professor Joseph Farrell, who has written widely on Italian culture.
Book signings: Authors will be delighted to sign copies of their books immediately after their events.
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