Lit in Translation

Sandra Petrignani

Born 1952 · Italy

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Strega 2018 · Shortlist

    La corsara. Ritratto di Natalia Ginzburg

    Title translated by AI:“The Corsair: A Portrait of Natalia Ginzburg”

    Sandra Petrignani · 66 when first published

    Nonfiction · 459 pages

    AI-generated summary:A portrait of the writer Natalia Ginzburg, from her birth in Palermo and youth in Turin to her life in Rome, retraced through the houses she lived in, surviving witnesses and her friends at the publisher Einaudi.

  • No English yet

    Strega 2003 · Shortlist

    La scrittrice abita qui

    Title translated by AI:“The Writer Lives Here”

    Sandra Petrignani · 50 when first published

    Nonfiction · 221 pages

    AI-generated summary:A journey through the house museums of great women writers of the twentieth century, from Grazia Deledda's Sardinia to Marguerite Yourcenar's Maine, Colette's France, Karen Blixen's Denmark and Virginia Woolf's England, told through their rooms and objects.