Luciana Peverelli

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Luciana Peverelli
Luciana Peverelli 1933.jpg
Peverelli in 1933
Born16 February 1902 (1902-02-16)
Milan, Italy
Died5 August 1986 (1986-08-06) (aged 84)
Milan, Italy
OccupationWriter

Luciana Peverelli (16 February 1902 - 5 August 1986) was an Italian writer, journalist and screenwriter. She was also known under the pen names Greta Granor, Anna Luce and Mariely.

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Life and career

Born in Milan, Italy, the daughter of a music critic, Peverelli started her career as a playwright, but the commercial failure of her play La donna senza nome (1926) prompted her to abandon theatre and focus on literature. [1] After writing some novellas and short stories, starting with her debut novel Signorine e giovanotti (1932), Peverelli successfully specialized in romance novels, characterized by a bourgeois setting, non-conformist leads and realistic situations, which later in her career were progressively influenced by feuilleton literature and by its gothic and melodramatic themes. [1] In her prolific career, she wrote over 400 novels. [2]

During her career, Peverelli collaborated with various newspapers including Il Tempo and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno , and with numerous women magazines, such as Lei, Amica , Novella and Grand Hotel , and was editor of the children's magazine Il Monello and of the film magazine Cinema Illustrazione. [1] In 1947 she wrote the texts of the first fotoromanzo, Menzogne d'amore. [2] In the 1940s and 1950s she also collaborated to the screenplays of several films, starting with Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's Violets in Their Hair (1942). [1] She was also a translator. [1]

Personal life

An anti-fascist, Peverelli had a long relationship with footballer and resistenza member Henry Molinari  [ it ]. [1] She later married and divorced the Briton Philip Ashley-Carter. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ciminari, Sabina (2015). "Peverelli, Luciana". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Vol. 82. Treccani.
  2. 1 2 Violi, Patrizia (2020). Breve storia della letteratura rosa (in Italian). Graphe.it Edizioni. ISBN   978-88-9372-103-5.
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