Alba de Céspedes y Bertini

Alba de Céspedes ( born March 11, 1911 in Rome, † November 14, 1997 in Paris) was a Cuban-Italian writer and journalist.

Life

Céspedes was born into the family of the first Cuban president Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, whose granddaughter she was. Her father was a Cuban diplomat in Rome, her mother Italinierin. She grew up trilingual in Rome, partly separated from her parents when her father was appointed to the United States. 1926 married, their first child was born in 1928.

From her husband she divorced then and devoted himself to literature and journalism. Works that promote an independent woman image were under Mussolini victim of censorship, what Céspedes even briefly drove into active resistance. After the war she resumed her work as a writer in Rome again, but moved in 1967 to Paris. With her ​​second husband she traveled a lot. She became a supporter of Fidel Castro, whom she wanted to dedicate her last work. Disappointed by the reality that they never put it done.

Bibliography

She wrote psychological social and wife novels like 1938 The call to the other side ( Nessuno torna indietro ), 1943 Escape ( Fuga ), 1950 Alexandra ( Dalla parte the lei ), 1953 The Forbidden Diary ( Quaderno proibito ), 1965 Repentance ( Il Rimorso ), 1967 and 1973 The Bambolona alone in this house ( Quaderno proibito ).

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