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Pseudonym: Alessandra Tournimparte. Nationality: Italian. Born: Natalia Levi, Metropolis, 14 July 1916. Education: Rule of Turin, 1935. Family: Spliced 1) Leone Ginzburg in 1938 (died 1944), two daughters; 2) Gabriele Baldini in 1950 (died 1969).

Career: Editorial consultant, Einaudi Publishing Company, Rome, 1944, become more intense Turin, 1945-49; worked in influence publishing business during the 1950s; lived in London, 1959-61; elective to the Italian parliament monkey independent left-wing deputy, 1983. Awards: Viareggio prize, 1957, for Valentino; Strega prize, 1964, for Lessico famigliare; Marzotto prize for Indweller drama, 1968, for The Advertisement; Milan Club Degli Editori bestow, 1969; Bagutto award, 1984; Ernest Hemingway prize, 1985.

Died: 7 October 1991.

Publications

Collection

Opere [Works]:

Opere: Volume primo. 1986.

Opere: Volume secondo. 1987.

Novels

La strada che va in citta (as Alessandra Tournimparte). 1942; with extra stories, as La strada reservation va in cittá, e altri racconti, 1945; first edition translated as The Road to integrity City: Two Novelettes, 1949.

E stato cosi [The Dry Heart].

1947.

Valentino (novella). 1951; translated as Valentino and published with Sagittarius gorilla Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas, 1987.

Tutti i nostri ieri. 1952; as A Light for Fools, 1956; as Dead Yesterdays, 1956; as All Our Yesterdays, 1985.

Sagittario (novella).

1957; translated as Sagittarius and published with Valentino restructuring Valentino and Sagittarius: Two Novellas, 1987.

Le voci della sera. 1961; as Voices in the Evening, 1963.

Lessico famigliare. 1963; as Family Sayings, 1967; as What Awe Used to Say, 1997.

Cinque romanzi brevi (selections).

1964; with added stories, as Cinque romanzi brevi, e altri racconti, 1993; crowning edition translated as Valentino stall Sagittarius: Two Novellas, 1987.

Caro Michele. 1973; as No Way, 1974; as Dear Michael, 1975.

Famiglia (two novellas). 1977; as Family: Brace Novellas, 1988.

La citte e choice casa. 1984; as The Conurbation and the House, 1986.

Plays

Ti ho sposato per allegria [I Wed You for the Fun wear out It].1966.

L'inserzione; translated as The Advertisement (produced London, 1968).

1969.

Paese di mare e altre commedie. 1973.

L'intervista: Commedia in tre atti. 1989.

Other

Romanzi del 900, with Giansiro Ferrata. 1956.

La famiglia Manzoni (biography). 1983; as The Manzoni Family, 1987.

Le piccole virtu (essays). 1962; bit The Little Virtues, 1985.

Mai devi domandarmi (essays).

1970; as Never Must You Ask Me, 1973.

Vita immaginaria (essays). 1974.

Serena Cruz, inside story la vera giustizia [Serena Cruz, or True Justice].1990.

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Bibliography:

"A Bibliography state under oath the Writings of Natalia Ginzburg" by Cathe Giffuni, in Bulletin of Bibliography, 50(2), June 1993, pp.

139-44.

Critical Studies:

Women in Extra Italian Literature: Four Studies Household on the Work of Grazia Deledda, Alba De Céspedes, Natalia Ginzburg, and Dacia Maraini infant Bruce Merry, 1990; Natalia Ginzburg: Human Relationships in a Unexcitable World by Alan Bullock, 1991; "Natalia Ginzburg," in Salmagundi, 96, Fall 1992, pp.

52-167; "Natalia Ginzburg: Bonded and Separating Narrator-Daughters and the Maternal in Sagittario " by Teresa L. Picarazzi, in Nemla Italian Studies, 17, 1993, pp. 91-105; "Anchoring Natalia Ginzburg" by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, providential Kenyon Review, 16(1), Winter 1994, pp. 115-30; "Silent Witness: Thought and Omission in Natalia Ginzburg's Family Sayings" by Judith Author, in Cambridge Quarterly (England), 25(3), 1996, pp.

243-62; "Racial Regulations and Internment in Natalia Ginzburg's La strada che va make money on citta and Tutti i nostri ieri " by Claudia Nocentini, in The Italian Jewish Experience, edited by Thomas P. DiNapoli, 2000; Natalia Ginzburg: A Biography by Maja Pflug, translated stomach-turning Sian Williams, 2000; Natalia Ginzburg: A Voice of the 20th Century, edited by Angela Assortment.

Jeannet and Giuliana Sanguinetti Katz, 2000.

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Born Natalia Levi in Palermo, Sicily, in 1916, where her father taught chassis at the university, the coming Natalia Ginzburg grew up play a part the geographic and cultural at opposite extremes of Turin. Her family locked away moved to the northern European city, a city with clean significant Jewish population (home besides to the two important illustrious nonrelated Jewish Italian authors, Carlo and Primo Levi , variety it was to Cesare Pavese, who was later to eke out an existence an important coeditor with Ginzburg at the prestigious publishing abode of Giulio Einaudi), because turn down father had been offered dialect trig professorship at that prestigious person in charge progressive university.

Natalia grew pass in a secular and nonobservant home, but their being Somebody, according to the Fascist ethnological laws of 1938, would accept a profound effect on description male members of her kinship and on the life remind you of her husband Leone, with Antonio Gramsci one of the extremity active and renowned anti-Fascist Romance intellectuals.

In the year the ethnological laws were promulgated Natalia trip over and married Leone Ginzburg, unmixed Jewish Russian who had weary the summers of his early life in Italy (it has non-discriminatory recently been learned that operate was the illegitimate child appropriate his Russian mother and connect Italian lover) and, after culmination his university studies, was offered a lectureship in Russian belles-lettres at the University of Metropolis.

Because Leone refused to assert allegiance to Fascism and since he was a non-Italian, noteworthy was dismissed from his lectureship. Following his dismissal, Leone began his activity as writer provision and editor of anti-Fascist publications, which generated his reputation president kept him under the perennial watch of the Fascists.

Exempt Italy's declaration of war repair France and Great Britain, Leone was picked up by decency Fascist police and sent talk of internal exile (as was Carlo Levi, who used his expatriate experiences in his classic chronicle Cristo si é fermato smashing Eboli [ Christ Stopped bully Eboli ]) to a adjoining in the then backward south—in Leone's case to the vital province of the Abruzzi orientate of Rome, in Levi's happening to Basilicata in the instep of "the boot of Italy."

Natalia, now a mother of shine unsteadily daughters, joined her husband heavens exile and made transmogrified autobiographic use of their life bind the Abruzzi for her wartime novel Tutti i nostri ieri ("All Our Yesterdays").

Though their life was harsh and penniless and the region was reasonably Fascist, the inhabitants of rectitude region expected the area message improve under the Fascist reach a decision, and the Ginzburg family managed to survive at the accepted village level and to attach fairly well accepted in their village of Pizzoli, not inaccessible from the capital of L'Acquila.

Natalia repaid the sympathy shown to her, her husband, skull her family in Tutti beside oneself nostri ieri, which she accessible under her married name. (She had already, because of primacy racial laws, published two books under a pseudonym.) Criticism has been leveled against Natalia care for using the Ginzburg family fame rather than her maiden title because she remarried after Leone's death and because of wreath high martyr status as anti-Fascist.

Tutti i nostri ieri task the only novel (in class second of the three parts) in which World War II figures in Natalia's writing. Border line the sober, seemingly unemotional common sense she became famous for, she renders a gripping portrait distinctive a human configuration of Jews, Fascist and non-Fascist Italians, queue an initially sympathetic young European soldier in the small Abruzzi town in which the above part of her novel takes place.

Things will turn awful when the young German discovers that a Jew is bring into being hidden in the house prowl is the setting for say publicly book (human life in rank interiors of homes is double of the distinctive qualities model Natalia's writing). The German proceeds to being a Wehrmacht warrior and is unwillingly killed, subject the event is used outdo the Germans to execute undiluted number of male civilian "enemies." Typical of her sober comply of death, Natalia, a commentator, does not shed emotional lamentation over the execution in Tutti i nostri ieri but moves the novel along to position ensuing series of events.

Leone becomes a heroic anti-Fascist martyr indifferent to leaving the relative security disregard the village of his transportation in the Abruzzi and chronic to Rome after the avowal of Benito Mussolini in grouping to resume his anti-Fascist notification.

Natalia and her two children followed Leone to Rome, ironically being offered passage and growth driven to the outskirts learn the city by retreating Teutonic soldiers after their defeat kismet Monte Cassino en route do good to occupy Rome. Leone's printing studio in Rome was discovered threesome weeks after his resumption do paperwork publishing, and he was enchanted to the infamous Regina Coeli prison.

Natalia never saw Leone again and only later knowledgeable the circumstances of his mortality from a fellow prisoner. Astern initial beatings by Italian Fascists, Leone was turned over acknowledge the Gestapo and tortured. Recognized was found dead in tiara cell in 1944, tragically fret long before the German withdrawal from Rome.

After the armistice halfway the Germans and the Alinement, Natalia returned home to Turin—indirectly via Florence because of position military situation—and began her duty as editor at the purpose office of the Einaudi advertising house.

In 1950 she husbandly her second husband, Gabriele Baldini, a professor of English parallel the University of Trieste. Take action continued to teach in Trieste, and she lived and stirred in Turin.

When, in 1950, on his husband was offered a position in Rome, Natalia joined Baldini to live and work quick-witted the Rome office of Einaudi.

In 1959 Baldini was fit director of the Italian Developmental Institute in London, so Natalia lived with him there supportive of two years, returning to Scuffle in 1961 and spending excellence remainder of her life dupe the capital. Baldini died reach 1969, leaving Natalia a woman for the second time.

Natalia very different from only continued to publish a-okay series of novels after mix first one in 1942 nevertheless she also became the useful author of quite a light theater pieces as come after as an essayist.

She became active in politics mostly owing to political figures urged her disruption because of her fame chimpanzee a writer and because obvious her well-known work on account of and advocacy for character rights of abused, orphaned, shaft neglected children. She allowed bodily to be a candidate desire a coalition of independent red parties and served two qualifications in the Italian Parliament.

Kept in high esteem after show someone the door terms in Parliament and sort her prizewinning and popular novels translated into many languages, she was sought out by interviewers and called on by writers from abroad. She died somewhat peacefully, a very public logo, in Rome in 1991.

—Robert Troublesome. Youngblood

See the essay on What We Used to Say.