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Voices

Dacia Maraini

Translated from the Italian
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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Michela Canova, a radio journalist, returns home to find that her neighbour, Angela Bari, has been murdered. Coincidentally, she is asked to prepare a series on crimes against women. Researching the programmes, Michela is forced to confront the every day horror and violence of big city life. Voices asks fundamental questions about the human condition. How much can individuals escape the patterns of domination, of male domination, that are in place the world over? Dacia Maraini is one of Italy’s most controversial authors. Several of her books have been translated into English.

Original title in Italian Voci  published by Rizzoli (1994)

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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Dacia
Maraini

Dacia Maraini is an award-winning Italian writer whose work focuses on women’s issues

Maraini has written numerous plays and novels and has won several awards for her work, 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).

In 2013, Irish Braschi’s biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of Maraini’s life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.

Dacia Maraini was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2011.

 

Dacia Maraini is an award-winning Italian writer whose work focuses on women’s issues

Maraini has written numerous plays and novels and has won several awards for her work, 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).

In 2013, Irish Braschi’s biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of Maraini’s life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.

Dacia Maraini was shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2011.

 

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ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Elspeth
Spottiswood

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ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Dick
Kitto

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Italy
Original Language
Italian
Author
Dacia Maraini
Publisher
Serpent’s Tail
Translator
Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood
Translation
Translated from the Italian
Nominating Library
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze - Italy

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