Giuliana Morandini

Giuliana Morandini (1938 – 22 July 2019) was an Italian writer.

She was born in Pavia di Udine and lived in Rome and Venezia. Her first book ''E allora mi hanno rinchiusa: testimonianze dal manicomio femminile'' (And so I was locked up: Testimony from a Women's Mental Hospital) (1977) was a study of women in Italian mental hospitals; it was a finalist for the Viareggio Prize. Her first novel ''I cristalli di Vienna'' was published in 1978 and received the Prato Prize; it was translated into English as ''Bloodstains''. This was followed by ''Caffè Specchi'' (''The Café of Mirrors'') in 1983, which received the Viareggio Prize. Her 1987 novel ''Angelo a Berlino'' (Angel in Berlin) was a finalist for the Premio Campiello.

In 1980, she published ''La voce che è in lei'' (The voice within her), an anthology of writing by little-known or forgotten Italian women authors. She also wrote an introduction for Italian translations of Samuel Beckett. Provided by Wikipedia