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Fausta Cialente

ファウスタ・チャレンテ

Fausta Cialente

Aliases: Fausta Terni Cialente

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1898-11-29 （Cagliari, Sardinia）
Died
1994-03-11 （Pangbourne） age 95
Nationality
Italian
Languages
Italian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Cagliari, Sardinia → Alexandria, Egypt → Italy → England

Career

Occupations
novelist, journalist, political activist
Active Years
1927-1994

Awards

Dieci Savi Prize
1930
Work: Natalia
Organization: Sapientia, Edizioni dei Dieci
Result: winner
Strega Prize
1976
Work: Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger
Organization: Strega Prize committee
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger

1976 Novel

Semi-autobiographical novel about the four Wieselberger girls, preoccupied with the position of her female characters.

position of womenfamily
Translations
  • translated into English

Bibliography

  • Natalia: romanzo (1930)
  • Marianna (1930)
  • Cortile a Cleopatra (1936)
  • Ballata levantina (1961)
  • Un inverno freddissimo: romanzo (1966)
  • Il vento sulla sabbia: romanzo (1972)
  • Interno con figure (1976)
  • Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger: romanzo (1976)

Translations of Works

  • Ballata levantina → The Levantines (1963, trans. Isabel Quigly)
  • Natalia (extract) → Virginia's Sisters

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Preoccupied with the position of female charactersStories set in Egypt
Recurring Motifs
female relationshipsantifascism

Legacy

Italian novelist and Strega Prize recipient, known for stories set in Egypt and as an antifascist activist.

Trivia

  • Her elder brother Renato Cialente was an actor.
  • Married Enrico Terni, a banker and composer from a Jewish Italian family.
  • Only daughter Lionella (Lili) born in 1923.