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Morante with Alberto Moravia at Capri in the 1940s.
Morante with Alberto Moravia at Capri in the 1940s. Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, ( November 28, 1907 &ndash September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian Capri ( Italian pronunciation Cápri usual English pronunciation Caprí is an Italian island off the Sorrentine Peninsula, on the south side

Elsa Morante (August 18, 1912 - 25 November 1985) was an Italian novelist, perhaps best known for her novel La storia (History). Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting Events 1034 - Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots dies Donnchad, the Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story History A Novel (La Storia is a Novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, largely seen to be her most famous and controversial work

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Biography

Elsa Morante was born in Rome in 1912, and except for a period during World War II, would reside in her home city until her death in 1984. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2

She married the novelist Alberto Moravia in 1941, and through him she met many of the leading Italian thinkers and writers of the day. Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, ( November 28, 1907 &ndash September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Morante began writing short stories which appeared in various publications and periodicals, including periodicals for children, in the 1930s. The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such Her first book was a collection of some of the stories, Il Gioco Segreto, published in 1941. It was followed in 1942 by a children's book, La Bellissime avventure di Caterì dalla Trecciolina (rewritten in 1959 as Le straordinarie avventure di Caterina). Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Children's literature is an age category of literature written for published for or marketed to Children roughly through age 12 The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Towards the end of World War II, Morante with her husband, novelist and film critic Alberto Moravia, fearful because both were Jewish, fled to the area around the Ciociara region near Rome, a flight that inspired Morante's "La storia" and Moravia's "La Ciociara" (translated into English as "Two Women" and later made into a film with Sofia Loren). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Southern Italy is the backdrop for much of her work. She began translating Katherine Mansfield during this period, as well as working on her first novel--she even risked returning to wartorn Rome to retrieve the manuscript of "Menzogna e sortilegio". Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation Kathleen Mansfield Murry ( 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the

Following the war, Morante and Moravia met American translator William Weaver, who helped them to find an American audience. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the William Fense Weaver (born 24 July, 1923) is considered the preeminent living English language Translator of Italian literature. Her first novel, 1948's Menzogna e sortilegio, won the prestigious Viareggio prize, and was later published in the United States as House of Liars in 1951. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January However, Morante and others found the English translation quite poorly done, to Morante's great disappointment.

Morante's next novel, L'isola di Arturo, appeared in 1957 and won the Strega prize. Arturo's Island (L'isola di Arturo is a Novel by Italian author Elsa Morante. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Much of the work she had written in the meantime, she had destroyed, although she did publish a novella, The Andalusian Shawl, and a poem, The Adventure. A novella is a written, Fictional Prose Narrative longer than a Novelette but shorter than a Novel. Her next work, Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini (a mix of poetry, songs and a play) did not appear until 1968. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Freudian psychology, Plato, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Simone Weil have all been cited as influences on her writing.

Morante and Moravia separated in 1961, and Morante continued to write sporadically. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. La storia, a story about Rome during World War II, appeared in 1974, which although a bestseller in Italy for the publishing house Einaudi, issued in an economical paperback edition at Morante's request, provoked a furious and at times negative reaction from literary critics on the left, who disliked its anti-ideological polemic. History A Novel (La Storia is a Novel by Italian author Elsa Morante, largely seen to be her most famous and controversial work Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.

Her final novel, 1982's Aracoeli, has been seen as a summation, albeit by some critics a pessimistic one, of motifs and trends present in all of her writing, such as the importance of children and childhood, and private worlds in which fantasy provides an escape from dreary external realities.

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Poetry

Novels and other narrative works

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