Margaret Mazzantini
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Margaret Mazzantini (27 October 1961) is an Italian writer.
Born in Dublin, she became a film, television and stage actor, but is best known as a writer. Her first work, Il catino di zinco (1994) was a Premio Campiello finalist. She won the Strega Prize with the novel Non ti muovere in 2002. A film of the the book was released in 2004 directed by her husband Sergio Castellitto.
She married Castellitto in 1987. They have four children. She lives in Rome.
[edit] Works
- Il Catino Di Zinco, Venezia : Marsilio Editori, 1994. ISBN 8831758977
- Manola, Milano : Mondadori, 1998. ISBN 8804410167
- Non ti muovere, Milano : Mondadori, 2001. ISBN 8804489472
- translated into English by John Cullen Don't move, London, : Chatto & Windus, 2004. ISBN 0701176776
- adapted as the film Non Ti Muovere (Don't Move), directed by Sergio Castellitto, released 2004
- Zorro. Un eremita sul marciapiede, Milano : Mondadori, 2004. ISBN 8804535164
