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Articles for DWF
Assia Djebar: the intransigent, 2000, n. 47, pp. 83-89
Assia Djebar, Algerian writer, first woman from her country to be admitted by the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, tells about her childhood, the relationships with women of her family, and her father's choice to send her to a French school, thus changing her life and destiny for good. And then Paris, back and forth with Algeria through years of violence and death, her career as a writer and film-maker. And then again her "second exile" in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she is Head of a Department of French and Francophone Studies.
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Interview with Pieke Biermann, 2001, n. 1, pp. 67-78
Pieke Biermann, German writer, born in Hannover and presently based in Berlin, former prostitute and now acclaimed writer of a series of books, whose protagonist, Karin Lietze, is the head of a team of Criminal Police in Berlin.
Pieke Biermann tells bout her life as a prostitute, the folgoration for Berlin 25 years ago and her personal memories of the falling of the Wall. And again, her work with a special team of policemen who deal with neonazi youngsters, the subject of her next novel.
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Interview with Eve Ensler, 2001, n. 2-3, pp. 55-63
Eve Ensler is the author of the Vagina Monologue, the famous pièce first staged in New York three years ago based on the interviews of more than 200 women on their own ideas and prejudices about the vagina.
From the very beginning the pièce became the occasion to denounce and address the sexual abuses against women; in each city and each country where the pièce is staged, Eve suggests the organisation of a V day, a day dedicated to unveil the reality of the widespread sexual violence against women.
Our interviewer, the Italian translator of the Monologue, was also the promoter of the V day in Rome last spring: at the end of the representation, Eve came on the stage, as she usually does, to break the silence on rape.
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Amélie Nothomb, 2001, n. 4, pp. 106-110
Taking the occasion of an interview, the author sketches the biography of the young Belgian writer Amélie Nothomb, born in Kolbe (Japan), who is becoming a legend in the francophone literary circles (in the last five years her books sold 1.300.000 copies only in France and have been translated in 31 countries).
After the success of her first book (Hygiène de l'assassin), Nothomb won the Grand Prix of the Académie Française with a novel based on her work experience in Japan (Stupeur et tremblements).
Following her family in several oriental countries, she practised the difficulties and the paradoxes of a true cohabitation of different cultures, which often represent the incredible and sometimes exhilarating materials of her novels, like the wonderful Le sabotage amoreux and the recent Métaphysique des tubes.
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Ann-Marie MacDonald,
2002, n. 1-2, pp. 105-112
Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Toronto-based writer and actor. Her play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) won the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama.
She won a Gemini Award for her role in the film Where the Spirit Lives and was nominated for a Genie for her role in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Her best-seller, Fall On Your Knees, was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 1996 and translated in the Italian language in 1999.
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Books reviewed by DWF
MONICA CAPUANI, Lei. Conversazioni private con le donne che hanno accompagnato
I monologhi della vagina in Italia, preface by Maria Serena Sapegno, Luca
Sossella Editore, Roma 2004
rev. by Annalisa Perrotta, 2005, n. 1