Goliarda Sapienza

Alberica Bazzoni (Institute for Cultural Inquiry)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

Born 10 May 1924
Died 30 Aug 1996
Activity 1941-1996

Places

Born in Italy
Active in Italy

Cultural Identities

Activities

Primary

Novelist

Other

Film Actor
Theatre actor

Resources

Goliarda Sapienza was an Italian writer and actress. Now increasingly considered a major figure in twentieth-century Italian literature, she was long ignored and marginalized during her life. Her literary production spans genres and forms, encompassing novels, short stories, poetry and plays, and is characterized by a highly innovative and subversive attitude towards artistic conventions and social norms.

Sapienza lived a troubled and eccentric life. She was born in 1924 in Catania, Sicily, daughter of Maria Giudice, one of the most prominent members of the Italian Socialist Party and a feminist activist, and Peppino Sapienza, a socialist comrade and a lawyer. She was the couple’s only child but had several step-siblings …

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Citation: Bazzoni, Alberica. "Goliarda Sapienza". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 December 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14079, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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