Anna Luisa Pignatelli

Anna Luisa Pignatelli della Leonessa dei Principi di Monteroduni (born 22 November 1952, Asciano, Siena) is an Italian novelist and an aristocrat of German ancestry.

Princess Anna Luisa Ermanna Pia Cecilia was born in Tuscany as the only daughter of Prince Wolf Georg Alfred of Schönburg-Waldenburg (1902-1983) and his wife, Countess Luciana Bargagli-Stoffi (1921-1984).

Her maternal Tuscan roots emerge in the following novels L’ultimo feudo (2002),[2] Buio (2006), Nero Toscano (2012) and Ruggine (2016),[3][4][5] Foschia (2019),[6][7] where the dominant themes are the attachment to the land and the ancestral values of her characters.

[12] Filippo La Porta ranked second her work Ruggine in the 2016 book list [13] and in Il Sole 24 ore he writes that "the art of being far from one's own time is what makes a text close to being a classic.

[17] In Guatemala, El lago indigena came out in Spanish in 2016, originally published in 2012 in France by La Différence, a novel in which, through the story of a photographer, the writer denounces the massacres of civilians and indigenous communities committed by the Guatemalan army in the 1980s.