
Dacia Maraini
Author · 28 books
Dacia Maraini is an Italian writer. She is the daughter of Sicilian Princess Topazia Alliata di Salaparuta, an artist and art dealer, and of Fosco Maraini, a Florentine ethnologist and mountaineer of mixed Ticinese, English and Polish background who wrote in particular on Tibet and Japan. Maraini's work focuses on women’s issues, and she has written numerous plays and novels. Alberto Moravia was her partner from 1962 until 1983.
Series
Books

La bambina e il sognatore
2015

La nave per Kobe
Diari giapponesi di mia madre
2001

Memorie di una ladra
1972

Mio marito
1968

Only Prostitutes Marry in May
Four Plays
1994

La lunga vita di Marianna Ucrìa
1990

In nome di Ipazia
Riflessioni sul destino femminile
2023

Searching for Emma
Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary
1993

L'età del malessere
1963

Trio
Storia di due amiche, un uomo e la peste a Messina
2020

Dolce per sé
1997

Isolina
1985

La vacanza
1962

Vita mia
2023

Colomba
2004

Train to Budapest
2008

Bagheria
1993

In Praise of Disobedience
Clare of Assisi, A Novel
2013

La grande festa
2011

Amor robado
2012

Corpo felice
2018

Darkness
1999

Voci
1994

Caro Pier Paolo
2022

Life, Brazen and Garish
A Tale of Three Women
2017

Woman at War
1975

Stowaway On Board
1996

La bambina che vola
2025
