Maria Corti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maria Corti

Italian writer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1915

Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 22-Feb-2002

Profession: writer, university teacher, literary critic

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Maria Corti (7 September 1915 – 22 February 2002) was an Italian philologist, literary critic, and novelist.
Considered one of the leading literary scholars of post-World War II Italy, she was awarded numerous prizes including the Premio Campiello for the entire body of her work.
Her works of fiction were informed by her literary scholarship but also had a distinctly autobiographical vein, particularly her Voci del nord-est (1986) and II canto delle sirene (1989).
For most of her career she was based at the University of Pavia where she established the Fondo Manoscritti di Autori Moderni e Contemporanei, an extensive curated archive of material on modern Italian writers.