Maria Pia Ammirati

Maria Pia Ammirati is a TV executive, writer and journalist. In 2000, her first novel, I cani portano via le donne sole was chosen for the 2001 Strega Prize. In 2005 Un caldo pomeriggio d’estate came out and won the Calabria Grinzane-Cavour Prize. In 1992 her non-fiction book about Italian novels of the Eighties, Il vizio di scrivere an investigation of new Italian writers. Since then she has dealt with Italian literature, writing for the cultural pages of papers and magazines, and at the moment she writes for the daily Liberal. Among her other books are Madamina: il catalogo è questo (1995), Femminile plurale: voci della poesia italiana dal 1968 al 2002 (2003).