Anna Maria Ortese

Alberica Bazzoni (Institute for Cultural Inquiry)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 13 Jun 1914
Died 9 Mar 1998
Activity 1933-1998

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Activities

Primary

Essayist
Novelist
Poet

Other

Letter-writer/ Diarist
Playwright / Dramatist
Translator

Resources

Ortese's Works

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Scrivere è cercare la calma, e qualche volta trovarla. È tornare a casa. [Writing is looking for calmness, and sometimes finding it. It’s going back home] Anna Maria Ortese,

Corpo celeste

Anna Maria Ortese is one of the most important and original Italian writers of the twentieth century. She is the author of several novels, short stories, poems and journalistic reportages, combining the opposite poles of realism and fantasy in an experimental and highly individual way.

Ortese was born in Rome in 1914,

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Citation: Bazzoni, Alberica. "Anna Maria Ortese". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 June 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14148, accessed 03 December 2024.]

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