Giuliana Morandini

Giuliana Morandini (1938 – 22 July 2019) was an Italian writer.
She was born in Udine and lived in Rome and Venezia. Her first book "E allora mi hanno rinchiusa: testimonianze dal manicomio femminile" (And so I was locked up: Testimony from a Women's Mental Hospital) (1977) was a study of women in Italian mental hospitals; it was a finalist for the Viareggio Prize. Her first novel "I cristalli di Vienna" was published in 1978 and received the Prato Prize; it was translated in English as "Bloodstains". This was followed by "Caffè Specchi" ("The Café of Mirrors") in 1983, which received the Viareggio Prize. Her 1987 novel "Angelo a Berlino" (Angel in Berlin) was a finalist for the Premio Campiello.
In 1980, she published "La voce che è in lei" (The voice within her), an anthology of writing by little-known or forgotten Italian women authors. She also wrote an introduction for Italian translations of Samuel Beckett.