Dacia Maraini (1936) is one of the great female voices of contemporary Italian literature. Born in Fiesole (Florence), she moved with her entire family and was only two years old to Japan, where, after the Japanese country's alliance with Mussolini's forces, she lived the experience of the concentration camp. Once returned to Italy, she settled before her in Sicily and then in Rome, where she very soon linked her life to literature and began to publish her first novels and plays. The Broken Years (1963), The Long Life of Marianna Ucrìa (1990) and The Last Night Train (2008) are some of her most important novels. Winner of the Formentor (1963), Campiello (1990) and Strega (1999) awards, many of her works are considered fundamental in the history of Italian and European feminism, and have been adapted for film and translated into numerous languages.