Dacia Maraini

"Culture for Social" Award

Dacia Maraini is a writer, poet, essayist, playwright and screenwriter.

It is part, by right, of the "thirties generation" together with some of the most famous authors of national literature.

It is unquestionably the author who knew how to represent, and represents, Italian culture, one in which civil commitment is not the object, but the subject.

As a great writer, she moves the word as an intimate and provocative instrument is the voice that gives female protagonists of her writings.

Characters like Chiara d’Assisi, whose inner strength bursts out in such an intense and violent manner, as to distort the experience of time with a language, yes revolutionary, but just as rich in an intimately subdued love.

Female emancipation is the leitmotiv of her being.

In this commitment Dacia puts, in addition to the strength of today, also the poignant memory of a childhood, where a child soul has made herself free by letting the thought fly beyond the barriers that made her prisoner.

Then he promised himself that in life nothing and no one would force her anymore.

That she would be free with herself, and not just for herself.

Extraordinary Dacia ……………………………………..