Alessandra Appiano

Alessandra Appiano (30 May 1959 – 3 June 2018) was an Italian novelist, journalist and television host. With her first novel Amiche di salvataggio she won the Premio Bancarella Award in 2003. Appiano wrote six more novels, which were translated into several languages, and edited a column in a weekly women's magazine.

Life

Alessandra Appiano was born in Asti on 30 May 1959.^[1] Appiano was a novelist, journalist and television host.^[1][2]

Appiano's first novel Amiche di salvataggio was published in 2002, and she won the Premio Bancarella Award the following year.^[3]

Amiche di salvataggio was published by Sperling & Kupfer. For the same publishing house, she made other books such as Domani ti perdono (2003), Scegli me (2005), Le vie delle signore sono infinite (2006) and Le belle e le Bestie (2007), four other novels describing the feminine universe of our time, also being translated into France, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Spain.^[2]

Appiano published for Garzanti Il cerchio degli amori sospesi (2010) and Solo un uomo (2013), and Ti meriti un amore (2017). Her last book, published by Cairo, retold the news story of the murder of Gloria Rosboch, a teacher who was killed by a student in Turin in 2016.^[4] Appiano edited a column called Amiche di salvataggio in the weekly magazine Donna Moderna.^[2]

She was honoured in 2013 in Milan for her writing with the Ambrogino d’oro.^[5]

Appiano died by suicide on 3 June 2018 in Milan at the age of 59, and was survived by her partner, writer and journalist Nanni Delbecchi.^[6]