Q&A Session with Multi-award-winning Italian Author and Novelist Melania G. Mazzucco (Monday, Feb. 9, 2026)
You are invited to join us for a virtual Q&A with multi-award-winning Italian author and novelist Melania G. Mazzucco on Monday, February 9, at 11:15 a.m.!
Mazzucco will join ITA221H5S via Zoom for a conversation focusing on her critically acclaimed novel Vita (2003; 2014 edition), which explores the experience of Italian immigrants in the United States.
Please email paola.bernardini@utoronto.ca for the Zoom registration details.
Vita was awarded the Premio Strega, Italy’s most prestigious literary prize, as well as the International Prize Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente for Best Foreign Novel (2004–2005) in Spain. In 2005, Vita was named a Globe & Mail Book of the Year, selected as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and included among Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Books of the Year—the only foreign work on the list.
Some of Mazzucco’s other works include: Il bacio della Medusa (1996; Medusa's Kiss), La camera di Baltus (1998; Baltus's Room), Lei così amata (2000, Premio Napoli; She, So loved), Un giorno perfetto (2005; A Perfect Day), La lunga attesa dell'angelo (2008, Premio Bagutta; The Long Wait for the Angel), Jacomo Tintoretto e i suoi figli (2009, Premio Comisso; Jacomo Tintoretto and his Children). Her books have been translated all over the world. She has contributed with articles, reportages, and short stories to many major Italian newspapers and magazines. Her most recent work is Silenzio. Le sette vite di Diana Karenne (Einaudi, 2024).
