Giuliana Morandini


Giuliana Morandini was an Italian writer.
She was born in Udine and lived in Rome and Venezia. Her first book E allora mi hanno rinchiusa: testimonianze dal manicomio femminile was a study of women in Italian mental hospitals; it was a finalist for the Viareggio Prize. Her first novel I cristalli di Vienna was published in 1978 and received the Prato Prize; it was translated in English as Bloodstains. This was followed by Caffè Specchi in 1983, which received the Viareggio Prize. Her 1987 novel Angelo a Berlino was a finalist for the Premio Campiello.
In 1980, she published La voce che è in lei, an anthology of writing by little-known or forgotten Italian women authors. She also wrote an introduction for Italian translations of Samuel Beckett.

Selected works