Protagonists
Laura Bosio
She was a lecturer in Writing Techniques for the Master in Journalism at the Università Cattolica in Milan, and she is a contributor to the newspaper Avvenire and the magazine Famiglia Cristiana. Her first foray into fiction came with I dimenticati (Feltrinelli, 1993) winning the Bagutta Prize for a first novel. This was followed by Annunciazione (Mondadori, 1997, new edition Longanesi 2008), awarded the Moravia Prize; Le ali ai piedi (Mondadori, 2002); Teresina. Storie di un’anima (Mondadori, 2004) and Le stagioni dell’acqua (Longanesi, 2007), a finalist in Italy’s top literary award, the Strega Prize.