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Michela Murgia (3 June 1972 – 10 August 2023) was an Italian novelist, playwright, and radio personality. She was a winner of the Premio Campiello, the Mondello International Literary Prize and Dessì prize, and was an active feminist and left-wing voice in the Italian public scene, speaking out on themes such as euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights .
Michela Murgia (Cabras, 3 giugno 1972 – Roma, 10 agosto 2023) è stata un'attivista, scrittrice, drammaturga, opinionista e critica letteraria italiana, autrice del romanzo Accabadora per il quale ha vinto i premi Campiello, Dessì e SuperMondello
Aug 13, 2023 · Michela Murgia was a voice for minorities and a lightning rod for political debate. She also garnered respect even from a prime minister whose policies she opposed.
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Sep 1, 2023 · Michela Murgia – a very fine writer, and probably the most widely known feminist public intellectual within the Italian cultural landscape of the last couple of decades – died at the beginning of last month.
- Miriam Ronzoni
Aug 11, 2023 · Murgia, who won the Premio Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize, passed away in Rome after announcing her cancer diagnosis. She was a prominent feminist, liberal and LGBTQ+ rights advocate, and wrote novels, travel books and opinion articles.
Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, Sardinia, Italy. Translated all over the world, she made her debut with "Il mondo deve sapere", which inspired Paolo Virzì's movie "Tutta la vita davanti" and wrote, among other things, the novel "Accabadora" (Campiello Prize 2010) and the pamphlet "Istruzioni per diventare fascisti" (2018).
