Rosella Postorino
Rosella Postorino is an Italian author. In 2013 she won the International Prize Città di Penne and in 2018 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize and the Premio Campiello.Life
Born in Reggio Calabria in 1978, Postorino was raised in San Lorenzo al Mare, Liguria. In 2002 she moved to Rome.
Postorino published her first story "In una capsula" in 2004 in the anthology Ragazze che dovresti conoscere. In 2007 she released her first novel, La stanza di sopra.
Her 2018 novel Le assaggiatrici won the 56th Campiello Prize, the Luigi Russo Prize, the Rapallo Prize and the Premio Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi.
Postorino has also translated and edited works by Marguerite Duras.Works
Novels
- La stanza di sopra, Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2007
- L'estate che perdemmo Dio, Turin: Einaudi, 2009
- Il corpo docile, Turin: Einaudi, 2013
- Le assaggiatrici, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2018. Pulibshed in English as At the Wolf's Table, trans. Leah Janeczko, New York: Flatiron books, 2019.
Nonfiction
- Il mare in salita, Rome – Bari: GLF editori Laterza, 2011
Anthology
- Ragazze che dovresti conoscere, Turin: Einaudi, 2004
- Working for paradise, Milan: Bompiani, 2009
Translations
- Moderato cantabile of Marguerite Duras, Trieste: Nonostante, 2013
- Testi segreti di Marguerite Duras, Trieste: Nonostante, 2015
