Rosa Cappiello

Cappiello's first book, I Semi Neri, was published in Italy in 1977, but was mostly written prior to moving to Australia.^[2]

Her second book, Paese Fortunato: Romanzo, was published in Italy in 1981 by Feltrinelli, and won the Premio Calabria Prize the same year.^[3] Within a month of publication, it had sold 70,000 copies.^[4] Cappiello spent a year as writer-in-residence at the University of Wollongong and worked on the English translation with Gaetano Rando.^[3] It was published as Oh Lucky Country in Australia by the University of Queensland Press in 1984. When she wrote her book, she was unaware of Donald Horne's The Lucky Country.^[4]

She won the NSW Multicultural Award (then known as the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award) at the 1985 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Oh Lucky Country.^[2]

Cappiello died in Italy on 4 September 2008.^[2]

• I Semi Neri, Edizioni delle donne, Rome, 1977^[5]
• Paese Fortunato: Romanzo, Feltrinelli, Milan, 1981^[6]
  • Oh Lucky Country, translated by Gaetano Rando, UQP, 1984^[7]