His latest book “Cesare” (Einaudi, 2018) is dedicated to the great literary critic Cesare Garboli. Success came to her with her first novel from 1974, “Das Fahrrad” (Einaudi)
The writer Rosetta Loy (Rome, May 15, 1931) has died. She had established herself in the literary world since her first novel Das Fahrrad (Einaudi) from 1974, with which she won the Viareggio First Feature Award. His latest book Cesare (Einaudi again) is from 2018 and focuses on the character of the great literary critic Cesare Garboli, with whom he had a very deep and complex relationship. Last year she received the Campiello Lifetime Achievement Award.
His themes were love, war, death and he dealt with them through an essential, clean, direct writing style. Rosetta Loy leaves her readers with a number of important books, including the historical novel Le Streets of Dust (Einaudi, 1987). Central to La word ebreo (Einaudi, 1997), Fregene Prize, is the story of his middle-class and Catholic family who, unaware of the tragedy that was continuing, passively accepted the racial laws. In Broken Hearts (Nottetempo, 2010) he tells of the murders of Novi Ligure and Erba. With Gli anni tra cane e lupo (Chiarelettere, 2013) he traced the history of Italy from 1969 to 1994. In 2016 he published Maybe (Einaudi), his autobiographical short story.
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