Daria Galateria is an Italian writer and professor.
Daria Galateria was born in Rome, Italy, in 1950. She graduated in Literature at the Sapienza University of Rome with a thesis on monologue in Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. She has taught French Literature and Language at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1975. [1] Over the years her research has focused in particular on the female memoir. She also edited the first Italian commented edition of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. [2]
In 1996 she was awarded the "Grinzane Cavour" for the book "Fughe dal re Sole". [3] In 2005 she was nominated Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
She hosted two cultural programs for Rai Radio 2 and Rai Radio 3, called Alle 8 della sera and Spazio Tre, respectively. [4] She collaborates with Il Manifesto, La Repubblica [5] and L'Espresso [6] since 1990.
Galateria edited the Italian translation of 29 works by foreign authors:
Luigi Malerba, born Luigi Bonardi, was an Italian author of short stories, historical novels, and screenplays. He has been part of the Neoavanguardia and co-founded Gruppo 63, a literary movement inspired by Marxism and Structuralism. Some of his most famous novels are La scoperta dell'alfabeto, The serpent, What Is This Buzzing, Do You Hear It Too?, Dopo il pescecane, Testa d'argento, Il fuoco greco, Le pietre volanti, Roman ghosts and Ithaca Forever: Penelope speaks. He wrote several stories and novels for kids, some of them in collaboration with Tonino Guerra.
Curzio Malaparte, born Kurt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, filmmaker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and The Skin (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples.
The Bagutta Prize is an Italian literary prize that is awarded annually to Italian writers. The prize originated among patrons of Milan's Bagutta Ristorante. The writer Riccardo Bacchelli discovered the restaurant and soon he regularly gathered numerous friends who would dine there together and discuss books. They began charging fines to the person who arrived last to an appointed meal, or who failed to appear.
Gianni Celati was an Italian writer, translator, and literary critic.
Nico Perrone is an Italian essayist, historian and journalist. He firstly discovered papers on the plot for killing Enrico Mattei, the Italian state tycoon for oil in the 1950s.
Raffaele La Capria was an Italian novelist and screenwriter.
Piero Calamandrei was an Italian author, jurist, soldier, university professor, and politician. Born in Florence, he was one of Italy's leading authorities on the law of civil procedure.
Fabrizio de Miranda was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
Clara Sereni was an Italian writer of Jewish descent. She was born and married in Rome where she remained until 1991. Then she moved to Perugia.
Carlo Ilarione Petitti count of Roreto was an Italian economist, academic, writer, counsellor of state, and senator of the Kingdom of Sardinia. He is seen as a prominent figure in the Italian Risorgimento.
Zanetta Rosa Benozzi Balletti, known under her stage name Silvia Balletti, was an Italian actress. She was active at the Troupe de Regente of Luigi Riccoboni at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris 1716–1758. She was the star of the Italian theatre in Paris and regarded as a superior interpreter of the plays by Pierre de Marivaux. She mainly played the part of heroine in Commedia dell'arte, Silvia. Casanova belonged to her admirers.
Giuseppe Scaraffia is an Italian writer and professor.
Alessandro Perissinotto is an Italian writer, translator and university professor.
Isabella Camera d'Afflitto is an Italian academic and translator, regarded as one of Italy's leading Arabists. She teaches modern Arabic literature at La Sapienza University in Rome, and has written numerous books and scholarly articles on the subject. She oversees the Contemporary Arab Writers series published by Jouvence in Rome, and has supervised the translation of more than 30 major Arabic literary works to date.
Era mio Fratello is a two episode television miniseries that aired in 2007 on Rai Uno. The first episode aired on 30 September 2007 in Italy and the second episode aired on 1 October that same year. It is the first Italian television series having 'ndrangheta as main theme. Filming took place in Calabria, in the cities of Reggio Calabria, Palmi, Catona, Melito and Pentedattilo. The La Repubblica television critic Antonio Dipollina appreciated the miniseries, commenting that it has "the same rhythm and language of the most modern crime series".
Ilenia Pastorelli is an Italian actress. In 2016, she made her film acting debut with They Call Me Jeeg, for which she was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Actress award.
Maria Messina was an Italian writer.
Silvana Grasso is an Italian writer.
Carmelo Samonà was an Italian academic and writer, as well one of the most important Italian Hispanists.
Elena Gianini Belotti was an Italian writer, teacher, and activist.