Rosella Postorino (Reggio Calabria, 1978) is an Italian author. In 2013, she won the International Prize Città di Penne, and in 2018 she won the Rapallo Carige Prize and the Premio Campiello.
Life
Born in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, in 1978, Postorino was raised in San Lorenzo al Mare, Liguria, northern Italy. In 2001 she moved to Rome.
Postorino published her first story "In una capsula" (In a Capsule) in 2004 in the anthology Ragazze che dovresti conoscere (Girls you Should Know). In 2007 she released her first novel, La stanza di sopra (The Room Upstairs).
Her 2018 novel Le assaggiatrici (At the Wolf's Table) won the 56th Campiello Prize, the Luigi Russo Prize, the Rapallo Prize and the Premio Vigevano Lucio Mastronardi.
Postorino has also translated and edited works by Marguerite Duras.
Works
Novels
La stanza di sopra, Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2007
L'estate che perdemmo Dio, Turin: Einaudi, 2009
Il corpo docile, Turin: Einaudi, 2013
Le assaggiatrici, Milan: Feltrinelli, 2018 , published in English as At the Wolf's Table, trans. Leah Janeczko, New York: Flatiron books, 2019 .
Nonfiction
Il mare in salita, Rome – Bari: GLF editori Laterza, 2011
Anthology
Ragazze che dovresti conoscere, Turin: Einaudi, 2004
Working for paradise, Milan: Bompiani, 2009
Translations
Moderato cantabile of Marguerite Duras, Trieste: Nonostante, 2013
Testi segreti di Marguerite Duras, Trieste: Nonostante, 2015
Bibliography
Anticorpi: dialoghi con Emma Dante e Rosella Postorino di Luisa Cavaliere, Napoli, Liguori, 2010