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Anna Luisa Pignatelli, born 22 November 1952, is an Italian writer

Biography

Of Tuscan origin, she has lived many years abroad and in particular in South Korea, Tanzania, Portugal and for long periods in Guatemala where she has taken a great part in the cultural life of the Italian community has contributed with several articles to the local newspaper La Gazzetta and has organized cultural activities as honorary president of the Asociación de Damas Italianas.

Writings

In 1989 she started her production with a book dedicated to Guatemalan ethnic groups of Mayan origin, showing a strong interest in the culture of the local communities. Her Tuscan origin emerges in the following novels L’ultimo feudo (2002), Buio (2006) and Ruggine (2016), where the dominant themes are the attachment to the land and the ancestral values ​​of her characters. The social situation of Guatemala is the main theme in the book Le lac indigène (2012) . Her books are used in Italian language and literature courses at the Franklin & Marshall University in Lancaster (USA) [9].

Criticism

Antonio Tabucchi has judged her voice as unusual, lyrical, sharp, and desolate in the Italian literature, [10], Rodolfo Tommasi has defined L’ultimo feudo as a masterpiece in contemporary fiction [11] [12], Filippo La Porta ranked second her work Ruggine in the 2016 book list [13] and in Il Sole 24 ore he writes that the art of being far from one's own time is what makes a text close to being a classic. This is the case of Ruggine. Her novels are reviewed in numerous Italian and French periodicals: ANSA [14], La Stampa [15], Il manifesto [16], Il Sole 24 ore [17], Corriere della Sera [18] , La Quinzaine littéraire [19], Le Monde [20], Le Figaro littéraire [21], Les Temps [22], LaLibre be [23], El Periodico [24], Jornal de Letras, Artes and Ideias [25

Translations

At first she is well known in France when La Différence in 2009 published two of her books: Le dernier fief and Noir Toscan and made another issue of Les grands enfants, already published in 2001 by Harmattan. Also in 2009 she was finalist for the section Foreign books of the Femina Prize with her novel Noir Toscan [26] and in 2010 she won the Prix des lecteurs du Var with the same novel [27]. In Guatemala, El lago indigena comes out in Spanish in 2016, originally published in 2012 in France by La Différence, a novel in which, through the story of a photographer, the writer denounces the massacres of civilians and indigenous communities committed by the Guatemalan army in the eighties of the last century.

Awards

Premio Città di Lugnano, for Ruggine, 2016 [28] Prix des lecteurs du Var, for Noir Toscan, 2010 [29] Silver Fiorino Prize, for L’ultimo feudo, 2002 [30]

Works

• Maya. Vita d'oggi degli uomini di mais, Firenze, Nardini press, 1989, ISBN 978 8840490007. 1. rist. 1991, 2.rist. 1996
• Gli impreparati, Paisan di Prato, Campanotto, 1996., French translation  Les grands enfants 1. ed Paris ; Budapest ; Torino : l'Harmattan, 2001 ISBN 2-7475-1836-1, 2. ed. Paris : la Différence, 2009, ISBN 978-2-7291-1839-6.
• L'ultimo feudo, Faenza, MobyDick, 2002, ISBN 88-8178-208-1., French translation Le dernier fief with the publisher La Différence, 2009 ISBN 978-2-7291-1838-9.
• Buio, Bologna, Pendragron, 2006, ISBN 88-8342-485-9, French translation "Noir toscan", La Difference, 2009, ISBN 978-2-7291-1837-2
• Nero toscano, Lantana, 2012, ISBN 978-88-97012-51-1.
• Le lac indigène, Paris, La Différence, 2012, ISBN 978-2-7291-1978-2. Spanish ed., Guatemala Sophos, 2016, ISBN 9789929812741
• Ruggine, Roma, Fazi, 2016, ISBN 978-88-7625-828-2.

note

   1. ^ Artistas guatemaltecos viajarán a Italia para exhibir su arte, su soy 502, 19 marzo 2014.
   2. ^ La Gazzetta, Guatemala, 1 October 2013, p. 11.
   3. ^ La Gazzetta, Guatemala, 3 February 2016, p. 2.
   4. ^ La Gazzetta, Guatemala, 1 October 2015, p. 2.
   5. ^ La Gazzetta, Guatemala, 2 June 2016, p. 10.
   6. ^ Prensa Libre, Guatemala, 6 May 2015, p. 29.
   7. ^ Gazetta, julio 2015, on camcig.org.
   8. ^ Salim Jay: "Le Lac indigène" d'Anna Luisa Pignatelli, on YouTube, LaDifferénce, 26 February 2018.
   9. ^ Franklin & Marshall College Italian Curriculum and Courses, su fandm.edu. URL last visited: 20 March 2018.
   10. ^ Ruggine. Una Toscana crudele e provinciale nel romanzo di Pignatelli, in Il Messaggero, 18 April 2016.
   11. ^ Giorgio Luti and Rodolfo Tommasi, Solchi di scrittura, Arezzo, Edizioni Helicon, 2006, p. 458, ISBN 88-89893-20-6.
   12. ^ Alessandro Litta Modignani, Anna Luisa Pignatelli. Ruggine, on ilfoglio.it, 26 April 2016.
   13. ^ Filippo La Porta, Alla ricerca del libro dell'anno, in Il Messaggero, 30December 2016.
   14. ^ Paolo Petroni, Ruggine, di Anna Luisa Pignatelli. Un intenso, duro romanzo nero, on ansa.it, 24 July 2016.
   15. ^ Bruno Quaranta, Nel borgo toscano c'è una donna crocifissa, in La Stampa, 23 January 2016.
   16. ^ Giacomo Giossi, La diffidenza della comunità messa alla prova dalla potente ostinazione di una donna, in il manifesto, 26 April 2016.
   17. ^ Filippo La Porta, Anacronismi attuali, in Il Sole 24 ore, 7 Febrary 2016, p. 24.
   18. ^ Ida Bozzi, Vicini di casa, lontani dal cuore. E cattivi, in Corriere della Sera. La lettura, 31 January 2016, p. 20.
   19. ^ Monique Baccelli, En Toscane, et ailleurs ..., in La Quinzaine littéraire, October 2009, p. 25.
   20. ^ René de Caccatty, La grace d'un roman de la terre, in Le Monde, 31 October 2009, p. 5.
   21. ^ Thierry Clermont, Anna Luisa Pignatelli. Un étranger jette le trouble dans un village de Toscane, in Le Figaro lettéraire, 19 November 2009, p. 5.
   22. ^ Jean Noel Plantier, "Noir Toscan", in Les Temps, 9 December 2009.
   23. ^ Marie France Renard, Chant pour une Toscane insolite, in LaLibre.be, 4 January 2010.
   24. ^ Dante Liano, El Periodico, 19/12/2014, p. 20.
   25. ^ Vasco Graca Moura, Jornal de Letras , Artes e Ideias, 6 April 201.
   26. ^ Parité dans la 2e liste du Femina, on BibliOBS !data=2 October 2009.
   27. ^ La diffidenza della comunità e l’ostinazione di una donna, on il manifesto.
   28. ^ Anna Luisa Pignatelli ha vinto il Premio letterario di Lugnano in Teverina, on tuttoggi.info, 26 July 2016.
   29. ^ Ils ont rempoté le prix des lecteurs du Var!, on var.fr, 2017, p. 17.
   30. ^ 2° Premio: Fiorino d'argento. Sezione D - Narrativa edita, on bottega2000.it, 2002.