Dacia Maraini is the author of many novels, short stories, plays, poems, autobiographical stories and essays. Her works have been translated in twenty countries worldwide. In 1990 she has won the Strega Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in Italy, with her novel Buio. Among her most recent books La bambina e il sognatore (2015), Tre donne (2017), Corpo felice (2018), Trio. Storia di due amiche, un uomo e la peste di Messina (2020).