5/12/2023 0 Comments Accabadora by michela murgia![]() Murgia, who is an administrator at a power plant, is also a politician and writer. It was first published in Italian in 2009, then in English in 2011 as well as being translated into several other languages. ![]() Michela Murgia’s Accabadora received the prestigious Campiello Prize in 2010, the Super Mondello International Literary Prize and the Molinello Award for First Fiction. Her third novel, Accabadora, is dedicated to her two mothers. Murgia was adopted as a soul-child – a traditional Sardinian adoption method – at the age of eighteen rather than the usual age of ten to fourteen, because of her natural father’s opposition. ![]() She studied at the Lorenzo Mossa Oristano Institute for Technical Studies followed by theological studies at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Diocese of Oristano and taught religion for six years in middle and grammar school in Oristano. Michela Murgia was born in Cabras, on the Italian island of Sardinia, in 1972. ![]()
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