1. Michela Murgia was a winner of the Campiello Prize, the Mondello International Literary Prize and Dessi Prize, and was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights.
Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia, on 3 June 1972.
Michela Murgia attended the Lorenzo Mossa Institute for Technical Studies in Oristano, and then joined the Institute of Religious Studies of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oristano to study theology.
Michela Murgia was active in the Catholic Action for a period as a regional referent for the youth section and she always considered herself a "believer".
Michela Murgia kept a blog, Il Mio Sinis, in which she described the peninsula of Sinis with the help of photography.
In 2008, Michela Murgia wrote a travel book on her native Sardinia.
Michela Murgia wrote as a columnist for ; her column, which began in January 2021, was titled "".
On 7 December 2020 Michela Murgia was invited to open, with an introductory speech, the premiere of the Teatro la Scala in Milan, which took place behind closed doors due to the Covid emergency and broadcast on television.
In September 2017, for the production of the Teatro di Roma, his text Festa Nazionale was included in the collective project Portrait of a Nation, in which other Italian playwrights such as Vitaliano Trevisan and Marco Martinelli participated together with Michela Murgia, and was staged with the direction by Fabrizio Arcuri and the interpretation of Arianna Scommegna and Fonte Fantasia.
Michela Murgia first supported the iRS - Indipendentzia Repubrica de Sardigna movement as a sympathizer, and later the independentist party ProgReS - Progetu Republica de Sardigna.
Michela Murgia harshly criticized the positions of Giorgia Meloni, arguing that being a woman is not enough to be a feminist.
Michela Murgia had kidney cancer from 2014 to 2016 and then again in the last twenty months of her life.
Michela Murgia wore a wedding dress designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri; the couple lived together with four.
Michela Murgia was proud of her extensive library; furthermore, she was a huge fan of JR R Tolkien's work and K-pop culture, in particular the South Korean musical group BTS.
Michela Murgia died in Rome on 10 August 2023, after battling stage IV kidney carcinoma.
In February 2019 Michela Murgia was sentenced to pay the sum of 18,000 euros plus interest and legal costs, for breach of contract with the publishing house Il Maestrale.