Emilia Marasco

Translated by Melissa Sassi

I live in Genoa but for two years I have been coming to Apricale where me and my husband, Renato, have a house. I was looking for a place where I could write, a place full of history, culture and humanity-it's not easy to find all these things together! Moreover, I was also looking for quiet, which is necessary for writing. I found in Apricale, a hilltop village, everything I was looking for. Such villages ask for a little effort to arrive there, that remind us, for instance, that walking is an essential part of our lives,  indispensable also for our mind; these are the most interesting places for me. In Genoa, I teach History of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and apart from art another big passion is writing. With another writer, Claudia Priano, I have opened Officina Letteraria, a Creative Writing workshop that I brought to Apricale this year, for a summer session. I have published three novels, La memoria impossibile (TEA), Famiglia,femminile plurale ( Mondadori), La distanza necessaria (Il Canneto), and a story for the anthology, Non è un paese per donne, ( Mondadori). My play Madri Clandestine was staged at the Teatro Duse in Genoa in 2011 and at the Civic Theatre of Sassari in 2012.

emiliamarasco@libero.it