{{Infobox writer | name = Natalia Ginzburg | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = Sandro Pertini e Natalia Ginzburg.jpg | image_size = 230 | alt = | caption = Natalia Ginzburg and President Sandro Pertini, early 1980s | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = Alessandra Tornimparte | birth_name = Natalia Levi | birth_date = | birth_place = Palermo, Italy | death_date = | death_place = Rome, Italy | resting_place = | occupation = Writer | language = Italian | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = University of Turin | period = | genres = novels, short stories, essays | subject = | movement = | notableworks = Family Sayings The Advertisementsee more below| spouses = | children = | relatives = Giuseppe Levi (father) | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = }} Natalia Ginzburg (, ; ; 14 July 1916 – 7 October 1991) was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships, politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works were also translated into English and published in the United Kingdom and United States. An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian Communist Party. In 1983, she was elected to Parliament from Rome as an independent politician. Early life and education Born in Palermo, Sicily in 1916, Ginzburg spent most of her youth in Turin with her family, as her father in 1919 took a position with the University of Turin. Her father, Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into a Jewish Italian family, and her mother, Lidia Tanzi, was Catholic."Natalia Ginzburg, E-Notes Her parents were secular and raised Natalia, her sister Paola (who would marry Adriano Olivetti) and her three brothers as atheists. Their home was a center of cultural life, as her parents invited intellectuals, activists and industrialists. At age 17 in 1933, Ginzburg published her first story, I bambini, in the magazine Solaria. Marriage and family In 1938, she married Leone Ginzburg, and they had three children together, Carlo, Andrea, and Alessandra. Their son Carlo Ginzburg became a historian. Although Natalia Ginzburg was able to live relatively free of harassment during World War II, her husband