Beatrice Monroy is an Italian writer and dramatist.
Biography
Beatrice Monroy was born and lives in Palermo, having spent many years in various Italian cities and abroad in France and the United States. She is the daughter of Anna Oddo Monroy and Italian-American scientist. She is an author of short stories, theatrical texts, and novels. In 2005 she wrote the poem "Portella della Ginestra: Indice dei nomi proibiti," in which she recalled the Portella della Ginestra massacre on 1 May 1947. The subtitle "Index of Prohibited Names" evokes the historical Index of Prohibited Books and refers to the instigators of the crime, still officially unknown. In 2012 her book Niente ci fu was published, dedicated to the life of rape survivorFranca Viola, who rebelled against forced marriage in Sicily. Franca Viola, interviewed by Concita De Gregorio, told her truth about this sequence of events in her life. Monroy's novel Oltre il vasto oceano: memoria parziale di bambina was nominated for the Strega Prize in 2014, and it won the 2014 Kaos Prize. The next year, 2015, Monroy published her novel Dido: operetta pop, a modern Dido's journey "halfway between the epic and the comic, legend and reality, the mythic and the contemporary." Beatrice Monroy works in cooperation with Rai 3 Radio, directs an editorial series titled Passaggi di donne , and has conducted writing workshops for women who were victims of violence. She teaches dramaturgy at the School of Arts and Theatrical Performance Trades at the Biondo Theater Company of Palermo directed by Emma Dante.
Works
Uccisioni stesso luogo stessa gente, Massa Carrara: Società editrice Apuana, 1990
Noi, i palermitani , Genoa: Marietti, 1991,
Palermo in tempo di peste , Palermo: Edizioni della Battaglia, 1992
Barbablu : il volo il delitto, Palermo: Edizioni della battaglia, 2002
Portella della Ginestra. Indice dei nomi proibiti , presentation by Carmelo Diliberto, preface by Gianguido Palumbo, introduction by Fabrizio Loreto, Rome: Ediesse, 2005,
Carmelo e gli altri : un racconto , Rome: Liberetà, 2006
Tutti in scena : manuale per laboratori di teatro e drammaturgia , Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2010,
Elegia delle donne morte , Marsala/Palermo: Navarra, 2011
Niente ci fu , Beatrice Monroy, Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2012,
Marius Scalesi, il ragazzo di razza incerta, Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2013,
Oltre il vasto oceano : memoria parziale di bambina, Rome: Avagliano, 2013,
Il libro delle vergini imprudenti, a collective novel by Enzo Di Pasquale, Rossella Floridia, Adriana Iacono, Beatrice Monroy, Muriel Pavoni, and Elena Pistillo. Palermo: Navarra Editore, 2014,
