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Natalia Ginzburg

Died in 1991

Natalia Ginzburg (died 1991), born Natalia Levi, was born in Palermo on 14 July 1916 and lived for a long time in Turin. In 1938 she married the anti-Fascist intellectual Leone Ginzburg and followed him into internal exile in a village in the Abruzzi. The antisemitic laws forced her to publish her first novel under the pseudonym Alessandra Tornimparte. She worked for the publisher Einaudi, married the English scholar Gabriele Baldini in 1950, was elected a deputy in 1983 and died in Rome in 1991.

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