# Lalla Romano

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{{Short description|Italian writer (1906–2001)}}
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'''Graziella "Lalla" Romano''' (11 November 1906 in [Demonte](/source/Demonte) &ndash; 26 June 2001 in [Milan](/source/Milan)) was an Italian novelist, poet, artist and journalist.

== Life and work ==
Romano was born as '''Graziella Romano''' in Demonte in 1906 from a noteworthy [Piedmont](/source/Piedmont)ese family. Her great-uncle was the mathematician and glottologist [Giuseppe Peano](/source/Giuseppe_Peano). Romano was originally interested in painting. She attended the [University of Turin](/source/University_of_Turin) where she studied with art historian [Lionello Venturi](/source/Lionello_Venturi) before [Cesare Pavese](/source/Cesare_Pavese) piqued her interest in writing. She graduated with a degree in literature and then worked as a librarian and teacher. In those years she started dating [Giovanni Ermiglia](/source/Giovanni_Ermiglia), a [philosophy](/source/philosophy) student from [Sanremo](/source/Sanremo), and wrote several poems dedicated to him which have been later collected together with other previous unpublished texts in ''Poesie per Giovanni'' (2007).<ref>{{Cite web
 |title   = Lalla Romano e la cultura francese. Conferenza
 |author   = Direzione generale per le Biblioteche, gli Istituti Culturali e il Diritto d'autore
 |language = it
 |publisher  = [Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali](/source/Ministero_per_i_Beni_e_le_Attivit%C3%A0_Culturali)
 |url      = http://www.librari.beniculturali.it/opencms/opencms/it/calendeventi/agenda/eventi/eventi_comitati/evento_104.html
 |accessdate  = 9 April 2018 }}</ref> During [World War II](/source/World_War_II) she joined with the Resistance. After the war, she became noted for writings that drew on personal and family experiences.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_/ai_n14408327 Obituary from "The Independent"]</ref>

==Legacy==
Romano continued to paint throughout her life. In 2009, a retrospective of her paintings was held in [Aosta](/source/Aosta).<ref>{{cite web|title=Lalla Romano: la sua passione per la pittura in mostra|date=6 August 2009|url=http://www.aostasera.it/articoli/2009/08/7/10807/lalla-romano-la-sua-passione-per-la-pittura-in-mostra|publisher=Val d'Aosta|accessdate=21 March 2014}}</ref> Her former house in Milan has been converted into a museum to preserve her work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://percorsi.casemuseo.it/luogo/associazione-amici-di-lalla-romano-2/?lang=en|title=Associazione amici di Lalla Romano}}</ref>

== Partial bibliography ==

=== Novels ===

*''Le metamorfosi'', Turin, 1951;
*''Maria'', Turin, 1953; 
*''Tetto Murato'', Turin, 1957; translated by Brian Robert Moore as ''A Silence Shared'', 2023 (Runner-up for the 2024 [John Florio Prize](/source/John_Florio_Prize), shortlisted for the 2023 [Warwick Prize for Women in Translation](/source/Warwick_Prize_for_Women_in_Translation), and winner of the PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature)
*''Diario di Grecia'', Padua, 1960; 
*''L'uomo che parlava solo'', Turin, 1961; 
*''La penombra che abbiamo attraversato'', Turin, 1964; 
*''Le parole tra noi leggere'', Turin, 1969; (winner of the [Strega Prize](/source/Strega_Prize))
*''L'ospite'', Turin, 1973;
*''Una giovinezza inventata'', Turin, 1979;
*''Inseparabile'', Turin, 1981;
*''Nei mari estremi'', Turin, 1987; translated by Brian Robert Moore as ''In Farthest Seas'', 2025
*''Un sogno del Nord'', Turin, 1989.

=== Poetry ===
*''Fiore'', Turin, 1941;
*''L'autunno'', Milan, 1955; 
*''Giovane è il tempo'', Turin, 1974.
*''Poesie per Giovanni'', Ventimiglia, 2007.

==Notes==
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== References ==
*{{cite book|author=Alba della Fazia Amoia|title=20th-century Italian Women Writers: The Feminine Experience|url=https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyitali0000amoi|url-access=registration|year=1996|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-2027-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/20thcenturyitali0000amoi/page/39 39]–|chapter=Lalla Romano: A Narrator of Withdrawal}}
*{{cite book|author=Katharina M. Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ncN7uneLKrcC&pg=PA1061|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=1061–|chapter=Lalla Romano}}
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