Grazia Livi
Grazia Livi was an Italian author and journalist.
Born in Florence, Livi got a degree in Romance studies with Gianfranco Contini, then in 1958 she wrote her first novel, Gli scapoli di Londra. In the sixties she started her career as a journalist working for several newspapers and magazines, notably La Nazione, Epoca and L'Europeo. She then gradually decided to leave the journalism to devote herself to writing, as a novelist and an essayist. In 1991 she won the Essays Section of the Viareggio Prize with the book Le lettere del mio nome, while in 1994 she was a finalist at the Strega Prize with Vincoli segreti, a collection of short stories.
She died in Milan in 2015.
