Francesca Sanvitale

Francesca Sanvitale (17 May 1928 – 9 February 2011) was an Italian novelist and journalist, "one of Italy's most renowned contemporary authors".

[1] Born in Milan, Francesca Sanvitale lived in Florence for two decades, gaining a degree there in Italian literature before moving to Rome in 1961.

[2] She wrote television plays and contributed to cultural programmes for RAI.

[2] The protagonist in Sanvitale's third novel, L'uomo del parco (1984), attempted to find the truth about herself through psychoanalysis.

[3] As well as other novels, Sanvitale collected short stories in La realtà è un dono (1987) and Separazioni (1997).