Barbara Alberti
| Barbara Alberti | |
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April 11, 1943 Umbertide, Perugia, Umbria, Italy |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, screenwriter |
| Website | barbaraalberti.it |
Barbara Alberti (born April 11, 1943, in Umbertide) is an Italian writer, journalist, and screenwriter.
Alberti grew up in a poor family and received a Catholic education. When she was 15, her family moved to Rome. Although Alberti said that she hated the city at first sight, she eventually warmed up to it. She attended Rome's University and took a degree in philosophy.
In her eclectic production, which aims to fight loser of the feminine image, there are also different works, from the picaresque evil Memorie Malvagie (1976) to the meditative Vangelo secondo Maria (1979), a stronger work tinged with humor and provocation suchas Il signore è sevito (1983), Povera bambina (1988), Parliamo d'amore (1989), Delirio e Gianna Nannini from Siena, both from 1991, and Il promesso sposo (1994), a profile dedicated to the art critic Vittorio Sgarbi and presented in the guise of a "fake" autobiography.
As a kind of humor is 'La donna è un animale stravagante davvero: ottanta ritratti ingiusti e capricciosi' (1998), in which Alberti was an Don Giovanni imaginary beside some female figures notes of her generation. The protagonists of her novels launch all the same challenge: to find the most invisible among happiness. Creatures in revolt: injudicious old, children of hell, hell, saints. Come back often the religious argument. In the past decade has been passionate about the fantastic biographies of existing characters, living and dead.
In 2003, Alberti published Gelosa di Mayakovsky, the biography of the famous poet (for which, in the same year, she was awarded the Alghero Woman Prize, and The Prince's Steering Wheel, in which she told with and loving the life of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. In 2006 she authored a book of short stories about husbands returning home.
She is also the author of many screenplays, including "Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli" (1973), Il portiere di notte (1974) and Melissa P. (2005), as well as playwrights (Ecce Homo).
Since 2009, she has held a pungent weekly column, "La posta di Barbara Alberti" in Il Fatto Quotidiano.
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