Goliarda Sapienza

Goliarda Sapienza (1924– 1996) was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1924, into an anarchist socialist family. At sixteen, she entered the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome and worked with directors Luchino Visconti, Alessandro Blasetti and Francesco Maselli. She is the author of several novels published during her lifetime, including The University of Rebibbia (1983) and The Certainties of Doubt (1987). She received major international acclaim with the posthumous publication of her masterpiece The Art of Joy (1998), as well as Meeting in Positano (2015).