Valeria Parrella

In 2005, her collection of short stories Per grazia ricevuta (For grace received, English translation by Antony Shugaar, 2009) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega, Italy's most prestigious literature award, and it won the Premio Renato Fucini for the best short stories collection.

[3] Parrella graduated in Classical Literature at University of Naples Federico II and later specialized in Italian Sign Language.

Her stories have appeared in the anthologies Pensa alla salute (2003), Bloody Europe (2004) and La qualità dell'aria (2004) and in numerous journals.

Since 2007, she has also been writing theatre pieces, while in 2008, she published her first novel, Lo spazio bianco, which won the Premio Letterario Basilicata.

She has written several other short stories and novels, collaborates with the newspapers La Repubblica and L'Espresso and has her own column in the magazine Grazia.