Fausta Cialente

About The Author

Fausta Cialente was a novelist, journalist, political activist, and one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Though the fascists censored her early work, she continued as an active member in the anti-fascist movement while living abroad in Egypt, writing pamphlets and making daily broadcasts against the Italian regime. She returned home after the war and eventually began publishing again, winning Italy’s most important literary award, the Strega Prize, in 1976. 

Books by Fausta Cialente

A Very Cold Winter
By Fausta Cialente
Translated by Julia Nelsen
A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan, by one of Italy’s most significant women writers. Translated by Julia Nelsen.

It is 1946 and Milan is in ruins. Camilla opens her illegally occupied attic to her extended family as they rebuild their lives among the rub...
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