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Italian author (1916–1991)

Natalia Ginzburg (Italian:[nataˈliːaˈɡintsburɡ], German:[ˈɡɪntsbʊʁk]; née Levi; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy.

She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and the United States.

An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party.

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In 1983, she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an independent politician.

Early life and education

Born as Natalia Levi in Palermo, Sicily, in 1916, she spent most of her youth in Turin with her family, as her father in 1919 took a position with the University of Turin.

Her father, Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into a Jewish Italian fa