Luisa Adorno
{{Short description|Italian writer (1921–2021)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Luisa Adorno
| image = Luisa Adorno giovane.png
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| birth_name = Mila Curradi
| birth_date = 2 August 1921
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2021|07|12|1921|08|02}}
| death_place = Rome, Italy
| nationality = Italian
| other_names =
| occupation = Writer
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| awards = Premio Alpi Apuane
Premio Prato-Europa
Premio nazionale letterario Pisa
Viareggio Prize
Premio Vittorini
}}
Luisa Adorno, pseudonym of Mila Curradi (2 August 1921 – 12 July 2021) was an Italian writer and teacher.{{cite news |last=Constanzo|first=Mauricio|date=14 July 2021|title=Cultura in lutto: è morta la scrittrice toscana Luisa Adorno|trans-title= |url=https://www.lanazione.it/cronaca/cultura-in-lutto-%C3%A8-morta-la-scrittrice-toscana-luisa-adorno-1.6590078|language=Italian|work=La Nazione|location= |access-date=19 July 2021}}
Biography
Adorno spent her career as a secondary school teacher. She collaborated with the magazines Il Mondo, {{ill|Paragone (magazine)|it|Paragone (rivista)|lt=Paragone}}, L'Indice dei libri del mese, Abitare, and {{ill|Italianieuropei|it}}. In 2005, she was a judge for the Premio Brancati.
In 1963, Adorno was awarded the Premio Alpi Apuane. In 1985, she was given the Premio Prato-Europa and the {{ill|Premio nazionale letterario Pisa|it}} for Le dorate stanze.[3 Italian] In 1990, she won the Viareggio Prize for Arco di luminara.{{cite web|url=http://www.premioletterarioviareggiorepaci.it/premi/vincitori/1-Premio%20Letterario%20Viareggio-R%C3%A8paci|title=Premio Letterario Viareggio-Rèpaci|work=Viareggio Rèpaci|language=Italian}} In 1999, a collection of her works was housed in the Archivio di Stato di Firenze, where it remains to this day.{{cite web|url=https://siusa.archivi.beniculturali.it/cgi-bin/pagina.pl?TipoPag=comparc&Chiave=334977&RicProgetto=personalita|title=Adorno Luisa|work=Archivio per la memoria e la scrittura delle donne|language=Italian}} That same year, she was awarded the Premio Vittorini for Sebben che siamo donne.{{cite web|url=https://www.nuovopremiovittorini.it/premio-elio-vittorini/albo-d-oro|title=Albo d'Oro|work=Premio Letterario Elio Vittorini|language=Italian}} In 2001, she became a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Luisa Adorno died in Rome on 12 July 2021 at the age of 99.{{cite news |last=Merlo|first=Francesco|date=18 July 2021|title=Luisa Adorno, evviva la Sicilia oltre ogni stereotipo|trans-title= |url=https://www.repubblica.it/podcast/audio-rubrica/la-carezza/2021/07/18/news/luisa_adorno_evviva_la_sicilia_oltre_ogni_stereotipo-310783447/|language=Italian|work=La Repubblica|location= |access-date=19 July 2021}}
Distinctions
- Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2001){{cite web|url=http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/ex-presidenti/Ciampi/dinamico/comunicato.asp?id=15010|title=Comunicato|date=1 June 2001|work=Presidenza della Repubblica|language=Italian|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605193707/http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/ex-presidenti/Ciampi/dinamico/comunicato.asp?id=15010|archivedate=5 June 2011}}
Works
- L'ultima provincia (1983)
- Le dorate stanze (1985)
- Arco di luminara (1990)
- La libertà ha un cappello a cilindro (1993)
- Come a un ballo in maschera (1995)
- Sebben che siamo donne (1999)
- Foglia d'acero (2001)
- Tutti qui con me (2008)
- Italia mia (2010)
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Category:20th-century Italian writers
Category:20th-century Italian women educators
Category:Grand Officers of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Category:20th-century pseudonymous writers
Category:Pseudonymous women writers