Daria Galateria was born in Rome in 1950. She graduated in Literature from La Sapienza University in Rome, with a thesis on the monologue in Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. Since 1975 she works as a teacher of French Language and Literature. Among his research areas are the memories, especially of women, of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has prepared the canonical edition in Italian of In search of the lost time, of Marcel Proust, for Mondadori, and has translated to authors like Françoise Sagan, Anatole France, Jean Giono, Paul Morand or Boris Vian. He began his publishing career in 1977, with the critical study André Breton. Later it would publish Parigi 1789 (1989), Il tè a Port-Royal (1995), Fughe dal re Sole. Memorie di cortigiani riluttanti (1996, Grinzane Cavour Prize), Scritti galeotti (2000) and Entre nous (2002). In 2007 he published his most successful work, Forced Labor (The other trades of writers). In 2005 she was nominated as Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. He currently directs several programs for RAI. She is also a regular contributor to Il Manifesto, La Repubblica and L'Espresso.