Silvia Ballestra Explained

Silvia Ballestra
Birth Date:	1969
Birth Place:	Porto San Giorgio

Nationality:	Italian

Silvia Ballestra (born 1969) is an Italian writer. In 2006 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize.

Life

Ballestra was born in Porto San Giorgio in 1969.

She was discovered by Pier Vittorio Tondelli and began publishing novels, short stories and essays since 1990.

Her debut book was Birthday of the Iguana^[1] and it has been translated into several languages. From that book and the following book La guerra degli Antò was taken the script of a film, The Anto War by Riccardo Milani. She has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature. She has edited various translations from both French and English. She has worked with the newspaper L'Unità and several magazines and other newspapers. She has lived and worked in Milan.

In 2006 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize for La seconda Dora.^[2]

Works include

Compleanno dell'iguana (Birthday of the Iguana) Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano, 1991.
La guerra degli Antò, (The war of Anto) Einaudi, Torino, 1992.
La giovinezza della signorina N.N. : una storia d'amore (The youthfulness of Miss NN), Baldini & Castoldi, Milano, 1998.
Zona : scritture dal territorio, Zona, [Recco (Genova)], [1998].
La Seconda Dora Rizzoli, Milano, 2006.
I giorni della Rotonda Rizzoli, Milano, 2009.
Amiche mie : romanzo Mondadori, Milano, 2014.
La nuova stagione Bompiani, Milano, Italia, 2019.
La Sibilla : vita di Joyce Lussu, GLF Editori Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2022.

Anthologies

Contribution to the anthology Papergang, under 25, 1990
Book: Adamo, Giuliana . Narrativa italiana recente = Recent Italian fiction : note su vari autori e problemi degli anni Novanta e del nuovo millennio, e su Niccolò Ammaniti, Silvia Ballestra, Stefano Benni, Diego de Silva, Dacia Maraini, Melania Mazzucco, Simona Vinci . Trauben ; Department of Italian, Trinity College . Torino, Dublin (Ireland) . 2005 . 978-88-88398-99-0 . 63888872 . it.
Book: King, Martha . After the War: a collection of short fiction by postwar Italian women . 2004 . 978-0-934977-55-5.
Book: Abbona-Sneider, Cristina . Borra . Antonello . Pausini . Cristina . Trame . Yale University Press . 2010-01-01 . 978-0-300-12495-8 . it.
The hills across the street. A trip around the life of Tullio Pericoli, Rizzoli, 2011.

Notes and References

http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095443423 Silvia Ballestra
http://www.gruppocarige.it/gruppo/html/ita/arte-cultura/pdf/bando_rapallo_carige_2013.pdf List of winners