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