Margaret Mazzantini

Margaret Mazzantini ( born October 27, 1961 in Dublin) is an Italian actress and writer.

Life and work

Margaret Mazzantini is the daughter of writer Carlo Mazzantini and the Irish painter Anne Donnelly. She grew up in Ireland and Tuscany. As an actress, she is involved in theater, film and television productions. More attention has, however, gained through their novel publications. So managed her first novel Il catino di zinco ( Eng.: The zinc bath) 1994 the finalists of the Premio Campiello; and Non ti muovere (English: Do not go away ), which was filmed by her husband Sergio Castellitto in 2004, won the 2002 Premio Strega. After a few years she published in November 2008, Venuto al mondo her novel (Eng. The most beautiful word in the world), of the history of Sarajevo since the 1984 Winter Olympics, during the siege of the town in the Bosnian civil war and postwar deals with. The novel was awarded the 2009 Premio Campiello .. 2011 her novel al Mare mattino appeared ( Eng.: The sea in the morning), in which it represents the end of Italian colonialism in Libya and the end of Gaddafi 's rule based on two individual fates.

In her first role as a film actress, she appeared under the pseudonym Margaret Donnelly in Joe D ' Amato's Man- Eater - The ogre from 1980 on.

With her husband, whom she married in 1987, and their four children, she lives in Rome.

Works

Original editions

  • Il Catino di Zinco. Marsilio Editori, Venezia 1994, ISBN 88-317-5897-7.
  • Manola. Mondadori, Milan 1998, ISBN 88-04-41016-7.
  • Non ti muovere. Mondadori, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-04-48947-2.
  • Zorro. Un eremita sul marciapiede. Mondadori, Milan 2004, ISBN 88-04-53516-4.
  • Venuto al mondo. Mondadori, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-04-57370-8.
  • Al Mare mattino. Einaudi, Turin, 2011, ISBN 978-88-06-21113-4.

German translations

  • Manola. Novel. Goldmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-72597-6.
  • Do not go away. Novel. Frankfurt ET - Anst. , Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3- 627-00096 -X.
  • At the end of the road. Novel. btb, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-73371-5.
  • The zinc tub. Novel. btb, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-442-73458-4.
  • The most beautiful word in the world. Novel. Dumont 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9536-6.
  • The sea in the morning. Novel. Dumont 2012, ISBN 978-3-8321-9684-4.

Films

  • Non Ti Muovere ( Do not Move ). Director: Sergio Castellitto (2004)

Awards

  • 2002 Premio Strega for Non ti muovere
  • 2009 Premio Campiello for Venuto al mondo
  • 2003 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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