Fausta Cialente
Fausta Terni Cialente (29 November 1898 – 11 March 1994) was an Italian
Early life
Cialente was born on 29 November 1898 in Cagliari, Sardinia. She was the second child of Alfredo Cialente, an army officer originally from the Abruzzo region in central Italy and Elsa Wieselberger who had trained as a soprano and came from a musical family in Trieste.[2] Her elder brother Renato (1897–1943) became an actor and appeared in many films. Fausta's early life was marked by upheaval as the family followed the movements of her father. In 1921 she married Enrico Terni (1876–1960), a banker from a Jewish family of Italian origin who had settled in Alexandria, Egypt in the early nineteenth century. Enrico was a musician and a composer. Cialente's only daughter, Lionella (called Lili), was born in 1923. Although based in Alexandria the family would spend long holidays in Italy.[2]
Writings and later life
Cialente's first novel Natalia, completed in 1927, treated the lesbian relationship of an unhappily married woman. It was published in Rome in 1930 and won the Dieci Savi Prize. When the initial print run of 3000 copies had been sold, her publisher wanted to print more copies but the censors in the
From 1940 she wrote
Many of Cialente's subsequent stories were set in Egypt. "The position of her female characters preoccupies Cialente throughout her work, not least in the semi-
She died in Pangbourne on 11 March 1994.[2]
Works
- Cialente, Fausta (1930). Natalia: romanzo (in Italian). Rome: Sapientia, Edizioni dei Dieci. OCLC 955167272.
- Cialente, Fausta (1930). "Marianna". L'Italia Letteraria. 6. Republished in Interno con figure (1976).
- Cialente, Fausta (1936). Cortile a Cleopatra (in Italian). Milan: A. Corticelli. OCLC 13873407.
- Cialente, Fausta (1961). Ballata levantina. Biblioteca di letteratura. I contemporanei, 25 (in Italian). Milan: Feltrinelli. OCLC 977921413. Translated by Isabel Quiglyas The Levantines, 1963
- Cialente, Fausta (1966). Un inverno freddissimo: romanzo. I narratori di Feltrinelli, 87 (in Italian). Milan: Feltrinelli. OCLC 1572178.
- Cialente, Fausta (1972). Il vento sulla sabbia: romanzo (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. OCLC 223416696.
- Cialente, Fausta (1976). Interno con figure (in Italian). Rome: Riuniti. OCLC 251671916. A collection of short stories. Includes an autobiographical postface.
- Cialente, Fausta (1976). Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger: romanzo (in Italian). Milan: Mondadori. OCLC 247228244.
References
- ^ a b 'Cialente, Fausta Terni', in Buck, Claire, ed., Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature, 1992, p.422.
- ^ a b c d Ruggiero, Nunzio (2017). "CIALENTE, Fausta". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Rome: Treccani. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
- ^ a b Giuliana Minghelli, 'Cialente, Fausta', in Jane Eldridge Miller, ed., Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, 2001, p. 66.