Italy on Friday was mourning
left-wing novelist, playwright and journalist Michela Murgia,
who has died at the age of 51 after a battle against cancer.
The left-wing Sardinian writer frequently spoke out a many
issues, including euthanasia and LGBTQ+ rights.
Murgia, the winner of the prestigious Premio Campiello literary
prize in 2010, had announced that she had a fourth-stage kidney
tumor in an interview with Corriere della Sera in May.
In the same interview she said her wish was to die when Premier
Giorgia Meloni was no longer at the helm of the executive,
saying she considered her government to be "fascist".
At the time of the interview Meloni replied that she too hoped
Murgia would live long enough to see a different premier.
Born in the Sardinian town of Cabras in 1972, she made her
literary debut in 2006 with the novel Il Mondo Seve Sapere (The
World Must Know), a satire about exploitation in a telemarketing
call centre that was made into a play of the same name and
adapted for the 2008 film Tutta la Vita Davanti (Whole Life
Ahead).
Her 2009 novel, Accabadora, won several awards including the
Campiello and the Mondello International Literary Prize.
Last month she married the actor and director Lorenzo Terenzi.
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