Natalia Ginzburg

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Italian novelist, playwright, and essayist
Born: July 14, 1916 — Died: October 7, 1991

known for
A deceptively simple, sparse, and understated style of prose. Her fiction was often autobiographical, and focused on both subtleties of intimate relationships and family dynamics, as well as Fascism, WWII, and the Nazi occupation. Her first husband, Leone Ginzburg, was an anti-fascist activist, and died in a Nazi prison in 1944. Natalia Ginzburg wrote her first novella, The Road to the City, while confined to a ghetto. "Ginzburg never shied away from the traumas of history-even if she approached them only indirectly, through the mundane details and catastrophes of personal life."

books
All Our Yesterdays
Light for Fools
Voices in the Evening
Family Sayings
The City and the House
The Little Virtues
Never Must You Ask Me
It's Hard to Talk About Yourself
Road to the City
The Dry Heart
Dead Yesterdays
I Married You For the Fun of It