Anna Maria Ortese

Anna Maria Ortese
Anna Maria Ortese
Born	(1914-06-13)June 13, 1914 Rome, Italy
Died	March 9, 1998(1998-03-09) (aged 83) Rapallo, Genoa, Italy
Pen name	Franca Nicosi
Occupation	Short story writer, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist.
Language	Italian
Nationality	Italian
Citizenship	Italian
Period	1933–1998
Notable works	Il mare non bagna Napoli L'iguana Il porto di Toledo

Anna Maria Ortese (Italian pronunciation: [ˈanna maˈriːa orˈteːze, -eːse]; June 13, 1914 – March 9, 1998) was an Italian author of novels, short stories, poetry, and travel writing.^[1] Born in Rome, she grew up between southern Italy and Tripoli, with her formal education ending at age thirteen. Her first book, Angelici dolori, was issued in 1937. In 1953 her third collection, Il mare non bagna Napoli [it], won the coveted Viareggio Prize; thereafter, Ortese's stories, novels, and journalism received many of the most distinguished Italian literary awards, including the Strega and the Fiuggi. Although she lived for many years in Naples following the Second World War, she also resided in Milan, in Rome, and for most of the last twenty years of her life in Rapallo. L'iguana, Ortese’s best-known work in English translation, was published in 1987 as The Iguana by the American literary press McPherson & Company. As of 2023^[update], what she considered as her most important work, the novel Il porto di Toledo (1975), had not been translated into English yet.