# Marta Morazzoni

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'''Marta Morazzoni''' (born 1950) is an Italian educator and writer.<ref name=italian>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csVcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1235 |title=Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies |pages=1235–36 |last=Marrone |first=Gaetana |author2=Puppa, Paolo |year=2006 |isbn=1135455295}}</ref>

She was born at [Gallarate](/source/Gallarate) in [Lombardy](/source/Lombardy) and studied philosophy at the [University of Milan](/source/University_of_Milan). She taught high school literature at Gallarate. She published ''La Ragazza col turbante'' (The Girl with the Turban), a group of stories, in 1986; it was translated into nine languages.<ref name=italian/> Her 1988 novel ''L'invenzione della verità'' (The invention of truth) was a finalist for the [Premio Campiello](/source/Premio_Campiello). The novel ''Il caso Courrier'' published in 1997 was awarded the Premio Campiello and, in 2001, the [''Independent'' Foreign Fiction Prize](/source/Independent_Foreign_Fiction_Prize).<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-TMhtk5AUYC&pg=PA223 |title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing |page=223  |last=Miller |first=Jane Eldridge |year=2001 |isbn=0415159806}}</ref>

==Biography==
The daughter of a textile machinery entrepreneur and the director of an embroidery workshop,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archivio.unita.news/assets/main/1986/07/16/page_009.pdf|title=Intervista a M. Morazzoni}}</ref> after completing her classical high school education, she graduated from the Faculty of [Philosophy](/source/Philosophy) at the [University of Milan](/source/University_of_Milan).

In 1986, she began working with the [Longanesi](/source/Longanesi) publishing house: her debut novel, La ragazza col turbante (The Girl with the Turban), was a finalist for the [Strega Prize](/source/Strega_Prize) and has been translated into nine languages. His subsequent works enjoyed similar critical acclaim: in 1988, L'invenzione della verità (The Invention of Truth) (Campiello Selection Prize); in 1992, Casa materna (Mother's House) (Campiello Selection Prize); and in 1997, Il caso Courrier (The Courrier Case) (Campiello Prize).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1997/09/14/campiello-sorpresa-la-morazzoni.html|title= Campiello a sorpresa la Morazzoni}}</ref>

She has also written theater [Magazine](/source/Magazine) for specialized magazines.<ref>Cfr. [https://issuu.com/hystrio/docs/hystrio-1991-n.03-askdfnasfjapjk ''Hystrio'', 1991, 3, luglio-settembre], p. 49</ref>

In 1995, Corbaccio published his translation of [Edith Wharton](/source/Edith_Wharton) The Gods Arrive under the title Il canto delle muse (The Song of the Muses).

He taught literature at a technical institute in [Gallarate](/source/Gallarate).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bresciaoggi.it/home/cultura/personaggi/la-scrittura-%C3%A8-liberazione-1.6742127|title=La scrittura è liberazione|website=bresciaoggi.it|access-date=2025-11-03|archive-date=2018-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909140219/http://www.bresciaoggi.it/home/cultura/personaggi/la-scrittura-%C3%A8-liberazione-1.6742127|url-status=dead}}</ref> He has been a member of the technical jury of the Chiara Prize on several occasions (including as president),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.premiochiara.it/chi-siamo/storia/|title=Storia|website=premiochiara.it}}</ref> which he won in 2019.

As she herself stated, reading [Cesare Pavese](/source/Cesare_Pavese), [Marcel Proust](/source/Marcel_Proust), and contemporary Scandinavian fiction was fundamental to her vocation as a writer.

== Selected works ==
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* ''Casa materna'' (His Mother's House), novel (1992) - finalist for the Premio Campiello
* ''L'estuario'' (Estuary), novel (1996)
* ''Una lezione di stile'' (A lesson in style), novel (2002)
* ''Un incontro inatteso per il consigliere Goethe'' (An unexpected meeting for counsellor Geothe) (2005)

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