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Rosetta Loy (15 May 1931 – 1 October 2022) was an Italian writer. [1] She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Le strade di polvere ( The Dusty Roads ) in 1988. [ 2 ]
Other articles where Rosetta Loy is discussed: Italian literature: Women writers: Rosetta Loy, who had evoked a collective memory of the past in Le strade di polvere (1987; The Dust Roads of Monferrato), combined autobiography and social history in the memoir La parola ebreo (1997; “The Word ‘Jew’ ”; Eng. trans.
"Rosetta Loy" published on by null. (1931– ).One of the most accomplished of modern Italian writers, who repeatedly returns to the more painful parts of recent Italian history. She herself is from an upper-class Roman family ...
Rosetta Loy was born in 1931 in Rome. Her father was an engineer and her mother a clerk. Her experiences as a Jew in Italy during the Fascist period are recounted in La parola ebreo (First Words: a Childhood in Fascist Italy). Since the war she has become one of Italy’s foremost writers and has written on Jewish topics. She has also ...
Born in Rome in 1931, Rosetta Loy is one of Italy's leading novelists & journalists. She has written seven novels & been honored with every major Italian literary award. In 1996 she received the prestigious European Prize for literature. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. (Bowker show more Author Biography) show less
Jan 1, 2001 · In 1937, Rosetta Loy was a privileged five-year-old growing up in the heart of the well-to-do Catholic intelligentsia of Rome. But her childhood world of velvet and lace, airy apartments, indulgent nannies, and summers in the mountains was also the world of Mussolini's fascist regime and the increasing oppression of Italian Jews.
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Aug 9, 2000 · Novelist Rosetta Loy grew up in a sophisticated Catholic family in Italy in the 1930s. As a child she was told that Jews did not baptize, but instead cut off part of a boy’s flesh with scissors. Many of her neighbors were Jewish: there was Signora Della Seta (a kindly gray-haired lady who often gave Rosetta presents) and the Levis (the noisy piano- and soccer-playing family upstairs). Loy ...
