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Maria Rosa Cutrufelli

Born 1946 · Italy

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    Strega 2004 · Shortlist

    La donna che visse per un sogno

    Title translated by AI:“The Woman Who Lived for a Dream”

    Maria Rosa Cutrufelli · 58 when first published

    Novel · 340 pages · Historical, Politics

    AI-generated summary:In 1793, during the Terror, Olympe de Gouges, author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, waits in prison for her trial. Her last months are told in her own voice and those of twelve women who cross her path.