Natalia Ginzburg: Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo, Italy in 1916. She was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Modest and intensely reserved, Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history, whether writing about the Turin of her childhood, the Abruzzi countryside or contemporary Rome--all the while approaching those traumas only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. She wrote acclaimed translations of both Proust and Flaubert into Italian. She died in Rome in 1991.
Editorial Reviews There is one book...which has meant more to me
than any other: "The Little Virtues," by the Italian novelist,
essayist, playwright, short-story writer, translator, and political
activist Natalia Ginzburg. - The New Yorker Sept. 2016 "The book
that taught me what I want to teach my daughter." --Belle Boggs "A
glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic
is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one
word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As
direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks
thoughts of the heart." -- The New York Times Book Review
Considered among the best writers in contemporary Italy, Ginzburg
should appeal to a wide American audience with this collection of
essays - Publishers Weekly These little virtues then, this little
book, pack a tremendous punch. By loving life, Ginzburg suggests,
by working with love and enthusiasm, by embracing the homeliest
details of daily existence with astonishment and joy, we may
legitimately hope to conquer--or at least break even against--the
worldly and leaden forces of materialism and fear. - LA Times She
is the author of six works of fiction, several collections of
essays, a play ('I Married You for the Fun of It') that has been
produced in Italy, France and England, and a critical biography of
the family of the 19th-century novelist Allesandro Manzoni, which
Mary McCarthy called an 'original and engrossing work.' - New York
Times Clarity, precision and wit mark the work of Natalia
Ginzburg.
Praise for The Little Virtues "A stunning tour de force, The Little
Virtues is a credo of undaunted idealism." --The New York Times
Book Review "There is one book . . .which has meant more to me than
any other: The Little Virtues, by the Italian novelist, essayist,
playwright, short-story writer, translator, and political activist
Natalia Ginzburg." --The New Yorker, September 2016 "Now reading
Natalia Ginzburg's The Little Virtues and my life is already
better."--Rosanne Cash, Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter and
New York Times bestselling author of Composed: A Memoir "A book of
beautiful short pieces." --The New Yorker, July 2019 "The book that
taught me what I want to teach my daughter." --Belle Boggs, author
of Mattaponi Queen "Considered among the best writers in
contemporary Italy, Ginzburg should appeal to a wide American
audience with this collection of essays." --Publishers Weekly
"These little virtues then, this little book, pack a tremendous
punch. By loving life, Ginzburg suggests, by working with love and
enthusiasm, by embracing the homeliest details of daily existence
with astonishment and joy, we may legitimately hope to conquer--or
at least break even against--the worldly and leaden forces of
materialism and fear." --LA Times "The essays are marvels of human
decency and strength." --NW Book Lovers Praise for Natalia
Ginzburg's work "One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th
Century."--The New York Times "Clarity, precision and wit mark the
work of Natalia Ginzburg." -- The New York Times Book Review "I
wish more people would read the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg."
-- Mary Gordon, Mother Jones "Natalia Ginzburg must surely be one
of literature's most provocative and moving writers." -- Elle
magazine "Realistic, anchored by vivifying detail, crowded with
wonderfully vibrant characters, luminous with deep feeling,
responsiveness, and sympathy." -- Publishers Weekly "Ginzburg draws
her readers into her deceptively charming essays with cascades of
alluring, everyday detail, then stealthily broaches moral questions
of great weight and complexity. Wryly witty, acutely observant, and
unfailingly valiant, Ginzburg is a revelation, a spur, and a joy."
-- Booklist "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . .
Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly
illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain
phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it
yet speaks thoughts of the heart." -- The New York Times Book
Review "Ginzburg was famous for her ability to conjure up a mixed
emotional atmosphere, poignant yet unsentimental." --The New Yorker
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