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Rosetta Loy


Born
in Roma, Italy
May 15, 1931

Died
October 01, 2022


Rosetta Loy was an Italian writer.
Born in Rome as Rosetta Provera, she was the youngest of four children of a Piedmontese father and a mother from Rome. She wrote her first story at the age of nine, but her real literary vocation manifested itself towards the age of twenty-five. However, she had to wait until 1974 for her first publication, La Bicicletta.
She was married for thirty years to Beppe Loy, with whom she had four children.[

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Average rating: 3.41 · 891 ratings · 100 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors
La parola ebreo
3.56 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
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Le strade di polvere
3.58 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1987 — 29 editions
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Cioccolata da Hanselmann
3.12 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1997 — 23 editions
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Nero è l'albero dei ricordi...
3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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Gli anni fra cane e lupo: 1...
3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions
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Ahi, Paloma
3.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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Sogni d'inverno
2.79 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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The Water Door: A Novel
2.67 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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La bicicletta
3.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions
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Cuori infranti
3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010
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“I bambini ancora in vestaglia arrivano come uccelli sotto il grande abete illuminato, luccica il laghetto di vetro del presepio. Natale splende con mille candeline negli occhi, nell'oro e nel rosso della carte colorate. La felicità si brucia le ali credendo di far luce.”
― Rosetta Loy
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