Beatrice Monroy

Beatrice Monroy (born 1953) is an Italian writer and dramatist.

Biography

Beatrice Monroy was born and lives in Palermo, having spent many years in various Italian cities and abroad in France and the United States.[1] She is the daughter of Anna Oddo Monroy and Italian-American scientist Alberto Monroy.[2]

She is an author of short stories, theatrical texts, and novels. In 2005 she wrote the poem "Portella della Ginestra: Indice dei nomi proibiti," in which she recalled the Portella della Ginestra massacre on May 1, 1947.[3][4] The subtitle "Index of Prohibited Names" evokes the historical Index of Prohibited Books and refers to the instigators of the crime, still officially unknown.

In 2012 her book Niente ci fu ('There was nothing') was published,[5][6][7] dedicated to the life of rape survivor Franca Viola, who rebelled against forced marriage in Sicily.[8] Franca Viola, interviewed by Concita De Gregorio, told her truth about this sequence of events in her life.[9]

Monroy's novel Oltre il vasto oceano: memoria parziale di bambina (Beyond the vast ocean: A girl's partial memory)[10][11][12][13][14] was nominated for the Strega Prize in 2014,[15][16] and it won the 2014 Kaos Prize.[17] The next year, 2015, Monroy published her novel Dido: operetta pop,[18][19][20][21] a modern Dido's journey "halfway between the epic and the comic, legend and reality, the mythic and the contemporary."[22]

Beatrice Monroy works in cooperation with Rai 3 Radio, directs an editorial series titled Passaggi di donne ('Passages of women'), and has conducted writing workshops for women who were victims of violence. She teaches dramaturgy at the School of Arts and Theatrical Performance Trades at the Biondo Theater Company of Palermo directed by Emma Dante.[23]

Works

See also

Notes

  1. "Beatrice Monroy".
  2. "Monroy, Alberto".
  3. "Strage di Portella: La Monroy legge il poema dei nomi proibiti". La Repubblica. April 28, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  4. "Bibliografia ragionata". Sapere per saper essere: Appunti per percorsi educativi su mafie, diritti, cittadinanza (pdf) (in Italian). Turin: Edizioni Gruppo Abele. 2012. pp. 138–139. ISBN 9788865790472. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  5. "Il No di Franca Viola tra mito e realtà".
  6. "Un velo di silenzio fitto di ricami".
  7. "La donna che disse No. Franca Viola, l'attualità di una ribelle".
  8. ""Niente ci fu": Storia di Franca Viola che si ribellò al matrimonio riparatorio in Sicilia".
  9. Franca Viola: "Io, che 50 anni fa ho fatto la storia con il mio no alle nozze riparatrici"
  10. Nino Vetri, Bombe e ruspe così Palermo diventa un romanzo.
  11. Pier Luigi Razzano, In viaggio da Palermo a Napoli Monroy e la memoria familiare, La Repubblica (Ed. Napoli), October 24, 2013, p. 9.
  12. "Oltre il vsto oceano. Memoria parziale di bambina – Beatrice Monroy".
  13. Anna Maria Crispino, Nel prisma della memoria, Leggendaria (bimestrale), Maggio 2014, p. 57, 58.
  14. "Oltre il vasto oceano, il nuovo romanzo di Beatrice Monroy".
  15. "Premio Strega: candidature".
  16. "Libri: A Beatrice Monroy il premio letterario Kaos 2014".
  17. Roberto Carnero, Le Navigazioni di Didone, Il Sole 24 Ore Domenica, January 10, 2016, p. 24
  18. "Beatrice Monroy: «Didone è il mito mediterraneo visto da una donna»". line feed character in |title= at position 35 (help)
  19. "Dido, operetta pop – Beatrice Monroy".
  20. "Libri di confronto: Il dramma della guerra e lo sguardo delle donne".
  21. "Il viaggio di Didone sorella mediterranea".
  22. "Scuola dei mestieri dello spettacolo diretta da Emma Dante".

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