Rossana Ombres
Italian writer and journalist (1931–2009)
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Life
Rossana Ombres was born in Turin. Her novels and poetry draw on her Piedmont childhood.[1] After graduating from University of Turin, she became a journalist and literary critic for La Stampa.[2] Her first three publications were volumes of poetry. Ombres then moved to narrative prose.[3]
Her first novel, Principessa Giacinta (1970), mixed feminist concerns with experimental form. The novel's female protagonist is shut away in a room to escape pollution, only communicating by telephone to the newspaper which employs her. She appears to occasionally self-identify with the wife of Martin Luther, and is waiting for a lost or stolen manuscript somehow associated with a previous marriage.[4]
Works
- Principessa anche tu [You too are a princess], 1956.
- Le ciminiere di Casale[The smokestacks of Casale]. Einaudi, 1962.
- L'ipotesi di Agar [Agar's hypothesis], 1968.
- Principessa Giacinta [Princess Giacinta]. Rizzoli, 1970.
- Bestiario d'amore [Animal love], 1974.
- Le belle statuine [The nice little statues], 1975.
- Orfeo Che Amò Orfeo, Poema Dramatica [Orpheus, a dramatic poem], 1975.
- Memorie di una dilettante [Memories of an amateur], 1977.
- Serenata [The call], 1980.
- Baladera, 1997.
