Grazia Livi (19 March 1930 – 18 January 2015) was an Italian author and journalist.[1]
Born in Florence, Livi got a degree in Romance studies with Gianfranco Contini, then in 1958 she wrote her first novel, Gli scapoli di Londra (The London Bachelors).[2] In the sixties she started her career as a journalist working for several newspapers and magazines, notably La Nazione, Epoca and L'Europeo.[3] She then gradually decided to leave the journalism to devote herself to writing, as a novelist and an essayist.[3] In 1991 she won the Essays Section of the Viareggio Prize with the book Le lettere del mio nome ("The letters of my name"), while in 1994 she was a finalist at the Strega Prize with Vincoli segreti ("Secret Constraints"), a collection of short stories .[3]
She died in Milan in 2015.
Grazia Livi (19 marzo 1930 – 18 gennaio 2015) nasce a Firenze, vive alcuni anni a Londra e si stabilisce a Milano.
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