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Mar 12, 1956 Lucca, Tuscany, Italy Died on 26 Jul 2016 (aged 60)
Italian writer and translater
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About Pia Pera
- Pia Pera (12 March 1956 – 26 July 2016) was an Italian novelist, essayist, and translator. Born in Lucca, the daughter of the jurist Giuseppe, a noted translator of Pushkin into Italian Pera started her own writing career in 1992, with the short stories collection La bellezza dell'asino ("The Beauty of the Donkey").
- She got international notoriety with her 1995 novel Lo's Diary (Italian: Diario di Lo), a retelling of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita from the point of view of the female title character.
- In later years she specialized in novels connected to her passion for gardening.Pera was also a translator of Russian novels and an essayist.
- She was a professor of Russian literature at the University of Trento.
- Her last work was the semi-autobiographic novel Al giardino ancora non l’ho detto ("I still have not told it to the garden").Pera died at 60 years old of motor neuron disease.
