Laura Di Falco: The Forgotten Italian Writer Rediscovered
Laura Anna Lucia Carpinteri, who went by Laura Di Falco, was a writer and painter from Sicily, born in 1910 and passing away in 2002. In the 1950s, she became well-known in Italy, mingling with notable literary figures like Eugenio Montale, who praised her narrative skills. She studied philosophy at the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and later moved to Rome in 1935, where she taught at training schools due to restrictions on women in high schools. Di Falco was politically active, supporting the antifascist movement. Her literary journey began in 1948, and she published several works, with her last novel focusing on 1960s Syracuse. After years of obscurity, her works were revived in 2012.
Key facts
- Laura Di Falco was born Laura Anna Lucia Carpinteri in Canicattini Bagni, Sicily, in 1910 and died in Rome in 2002.
- She studied philosophy at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa under Arnaldo Momigliano.
- She moved to Rome in 1935 and married Felice Di Falco, an antifascist official.
- She published her first novel Paura del giorno with Mondadori in 1954.
- Her novel Una donna disponibile was a finalist for the Premio Strega in 1960 and won the Erice Venere d'argento in 1961.
- Her last novel L'inferriata (1976) was titled by Maria Bellonci and set in 1960s Syracuse.
- She was rediscovered in 2012 when Verbavolant republished her works.
- She also painted still lifes in the 1950s.
Entities
Artists
- Laura Di Falco
- Laura Anna Lucia Carpinteri
- Eugenio Montale
- Giovanni Comisso
- Vitaliano Brancati
- Ercole Patti
- Aldo Palazzeschi
- Arnaldo Momigliano
- Walter Binni
- Claudio Varese
- Felice Di Falco
- Ugo La Malfa
- Maria Bellonci
- Clelia Lombardo
- Joshua Nicolosi
- Ludovico Pratesi
Institutions
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Istituto Nazionale per il Commercio con l'Estero
- Partito d'Azione
- La Nazione
- Il Mondo
- Mondadori
- Sciascia Editore
- Rizzoli
- Verbavolant
- Amazon
- Artribune
- Premio Strega
- Erice Venere d'argento
- Caffè Aragno
Locations
- Canicattini Bagni
- Sicily
- Italy
- Siracusa
- Syracuse
- Pisa
- Rome
- Ortigia