by Dacia Maraini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817865364
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«Amata scrittura» is Dacia Maraini's essay on creative writing, published by Rizzoli in paperback (310 pages, in Italian).
A non-fiction work that presents creative writing as a shared working space: through analyses, reading materials, proposals and dialogues, it approaches the craft of writing from multiple perspectives. The texts, collected and edited by Viviana Rosi and Maria Pia Simonetti, gather Dacia Maraini's contributions.
Part of the «Piccola biblioteca La scala» series. Includes bibliographical references (pp. 275-286) and index; first edition 2000.
Recommended for writers, teachers and creative writing students, as well as for readers of Dacia Maraini's essayistic work.
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. Maraini's work focuses on women's issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. She has won awards for her work, including the Formentor Prize for L'età del malessere (1963); the Fregene Prize for Isolina (1985); the Premio Campiello and Book of the Year Award for La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa (1990); and the Premio Strega for Buio (1999). In 2013, Irish Braschi's biographical documentary I Was Born Travelling told the story of her life, focusing in particular on her imprisonment in a concentration camp in Japan during World War II and the journeys she made around the world with her partner Alberto Moravia and close friends Pier Paolo Pasolini and Maria Callas.
