Biography of Natalia Levi Ginzburg

Name: Natalia Levi Ginzburg
Birth Date: 1916
Death Date: October 7, 1991
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, essayist, playwright, translator

Natalia Levi Ginzburg

Italian novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator, Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi; 1916-1991) was famous for her portraits of family life and for her spare style.Natalia Ginzburg was born in Palermo in 1916, the daughter of Guiseppe Levi, a prominent anatomy professor. She grew up in Turin where she married the translator and anti-Fascist leader Leone Ginzburg. During the early years of World War II she and her family lived in forced residence in the mountainous Abruzzi region. (Her father and two brothers were arrested by the Fascists; one brother escaped.) In 1943 Ginzburg, her husband, and three children moved to Rome where he was soon arrested for editing an underground newspaper and tortured to death by the Nazis. After his death she returned to Turin where she worked as an editor with the famous Einaudi publishing house and wrote. In 1950 she married Gabriele Baldini, a musicologist and professor of English literature (…showed first 150 words…

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…showed last 150 words…the little virtues we'll find the great ones, she tells us. All we have to do is look.In 1983 Ginzburg was elected to the Italian Parliament, and served one term. She lived near the Pantheon in old (central) Rome, until she died of cancer on October 7, 1991. Further Reading English translations of Natalia Ginzburg's works are reviewed regularly in major newspapers such as The New York Times, Washington Post, and New York Review of Books, which occasionally also publish extracts. For interviews in English see Laura Furman, "An Interview with Natalia Ginzburg," Southwest Review (Winter 1987), and Mary Gordon, "Surviving History," The New York Times Magazine (March 25, 1990). Anne Marie O'Healy, "Natalia Ginzburg and the Family," Canadian Journal of Italian Studies (1986) deals with Ginzburg's interest in families.Ginzburg, Natalia, Family sayings, Manchester: Carcanet, 1984, 1967.Ginzburg, Natalia, Family sayings, New York: Seaver Books: Distributed by H. Holt, 1986, 1967. Ginzburg, Natalia, Family sayings, New York: Arcade Pub., 1989, 1967.

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