Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Donatella di Pietrantonio (Arsita, January 5, 1962) is an Italian writer who is best known for her novels My Mother is a River and A Girl Returned.

[1] She made her debut as a writer in 2011 with the novel My mother is a river, set in her native land of Abruzzo.

[2][3] In 2017, she published her third novel for Einaudi, L'Arminuta, also set in Abruzzo; the title is a dialectal term that can be translated into «the returned».

From the novel was taken, in 2019, a theatrical show produced by the Teatro Stabile d'Abruzzo[4] and, in 2021, a film directed by Giuseppe Bonito.

In 2020, again for Einaudi, she published Borgo Sud, also set in Abruzzo and considered the sequel to L'Arminuta, as it describes successive stories of the two sisters who were the protagonists of the previous novel.