1. Natalia Ginzburg wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize.
11 Facts About Natalia Ginzburg
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Natalia Ginzburg's father, Giuseppe Levi, a renowned Italian histologist, was born into a Jewish Italian family, and her mother, Lidia Tanzi, was Catholic.
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Natalia Ginzburg's parents were secular and raised Natalia, her sister Paola and her three brothers as atheists.
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At the age of 17 in 1933, Natalia Ginzburg published her first story, "I bambini", in the magazine Solaria.
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Natalia Ginzburg died in incarceration in 1944 after suffering severe torture.
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In 1950, Natalia Ginzburg married again, to Gabriele Baldini, a scholar of English literature.
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Natalia Ginzburg spent much of the 1940s working for the publisher Einaudi in Turin in addition to her creative writing.
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Natalia Ginzburg thought deeply about the questions aroused by the war and the Holocaust, dealing with them in fiction and essays.
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Natalia Ginzburg became supportive of Catholicism, arousing controversy among her circle, because she believed that Christ was a persecuted Jew.
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Natalia Ginzburg was politically involved throughout her life as an activist and polemicist.
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Natalia Ginzburg was elected to the Italian Parliament as an Independent in 1983.