Natalia Ginzburg

Natalia Ginzburg was an Italian author whose novels, short stories and essays dealt with family life, politics during the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. Her books include All Our Yesterdays, Family Lexicon and The Little Virtues, and she received the Strega Prize and the Bagutta Prize. For a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party, and in 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an independent.