Rossana Ombres

Rossana Ombres (1931-2009) was an Italian poet, journalist and novelist.[1][2]

Life

Rossana Ombres was born in Turin. Her novels and poetry draw on her Piedmont childhood.[1] After graduating from University of Turin, she became a journalist and literary critic for La Stampa.[2] Her first three publications were volumes of poetry. Ombres then moved to narrative prose.[3]

Her first novel, Principessa Giacinta (1970), mixed feminist concerns with experimental form. The novel's female protagonist is shut away in a room to escape pollution, only communicating by telephone to the newspaper which employs her. She appears to occasionally self-identify with the wife of Martin Luther, and is waiting for a lost or stolen manuscript somehow associated with a previous marriage.[4]

Works

  • Principessa anche tu [You too are a princess], 1956.
  • Le ciminiere di Casale[The smokestacks of Casale]. Einaudi, 1962.
  • L'ipotesi di Agar [Agar's hypothesis], 1968.
  • Principessa Giacinta [Princess Giacinta]. Rizzoli, 1970.
  • Bestiario d'amore [Animal love], 1974.
  • Le belle statuine [The nice little statues], 1975.
  • Orfeo Che Amò Orfeo, Poema Dramatica [Orpheus, a dramatic poem], 1975.
  • Memorie di una dilettante [Memories of an amateur], 1977.
  • Serenata [The call], 1980.
  • Baladera, 1997.

References

  1. ^ a b Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (eds.). "Ombres, Rossana (1931–)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Throughout the Ages – via encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ a b Peter Loyson (2021). Her Story! A Tribute to Italian Women: From Earliest Times to the Present. African Sun Media. pp. 162–3. ISBN 978-0-620-92275-3.
  3. ^ Danielle Hipkins (2007). "Excessively Fantastic? Rossana Ombres's Serenata". In Francesca Billiani; Gigliola Sulis (eds.). The Italian Gothic and Fantastic: Encounters and Rewritings of Narrative Traditions. Associated University Press. ISBN 978-0-8386-4126-2.
  4. ^ Carol Lazzaro-Weiss (2011). From Margins to Mainstream: Feminism and Fictional Modes in Italian Women's Writing. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8122-0670-8.
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