Silvia Dai Pra'

Writer and teacher, she graduated in arts from the University of Siena, where she also completed a PdD on the work of Elsa Morante. Her stories, articles and reportages have appeared in Il Fatto Quotidiano, il manifesto, Lo Straniero, Il Riformista, and in the anthologies Da un mondo all’altro, La Tartaruga (2006) and Generazioni nove per due, L’ancora del Mediterraneo (2005). She has also translated a number of books from English. She published an essay on the work of Federico De Roberto titled Federico De Roberto, tra naturalismo ed espressionismo: lo stile della provocazione, Isspe (2003). In 2007 she published La bambina felice with Gremese, her first novel, which was set in the city of Massa. She wrote Cuor crocifisso, a narrative reportage on the issue of maternity in Italy, in Il corpo e il sangue d’Italia. Otto inchieste da un paese sconosciuto, minimum fax (2007). In 2011, Laterza published Quelli che però è lo stesso.