Rosetta Loy
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Rosetta Loy (15 May 1931 – 1 October 2022) was an Italian writer.[1] She was the recipient of the Rapallo Carige Prize for Le strade di polvere (The Dusty Roads) in 1988.[2]
Born Rosetta Provera, she was the youngest of four children of a Piedmontese father and a mother from Rome.[3] She wrote her first story at the age of nine, but her real literary vocation manifested itself towards the age of twenty-five. However, she had to wait until 1974 for her first publication, The Bicycle.[2]
In 1992, Loy temporarily left Einaudi, with which she had published her most acclaimed work four years earlier and published the semi-autobiographical novel Sogni d'inverno for Mondadori.[4]
