Natalia Ginzburg (14 July 1916, Palermo-7 October 1991, Rome)
was an Italian author whose work explored family relationships,
politics during and after the Fascist years and World War II, and
philosophy. She wrote novels, short stories and essays, for which
she received the Strega Prize and Bagutta Prize. Most of her works
were also translated into English and published in the United
Kingdom and United States.
An activist, for a time in the 1930s she belonged to the Italian
Communist Party. In 1983 she was elected to Parliament from Rome as
an Independent.