Nicoletta Vallorani | |
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Born | Offida, Italy | 7 February 1959
Occupation | Writer, translator, academic, blogger |
Language | Italian |
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Milan |
Genre | Science fiction, noir |
Years active | 1992–present |
Nicoletta Vallorani (born 7 February 1959) is an Italian science fiction writer.
Born in Offida, in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the University of Milan, Milan. [1]
Her work as an essayist focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular.
She contributed to various genre magazines, including Cosmo, La città e le stelle, Studi e ricerche sulla fantascienza and Ucronia. For Mondadori she did volume prefaces, articles, interviews, columns.
Starting in the mid-1980s she published novels and short-story collections.
She won the Premio Urania 1992 with the novel Il cuore finto di DR, a science fiction/noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the Urania inprint the following year, and also translated in French. She also writes noir and kids literature.
In 2012 her novel Le madri cattive won the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Maria Teresa Di Lascia. [2] In 2020 her novel Avrai i miei occhi (Zona 42) was longlisted for the Premio Campiello and Premio Napoli.
Her latest novel is Noi siamo campo di battaglia (Zona 42)
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