Michela Murgia died

2023-08-11 07:13:21

Time.news – Michela Murgia died yesterday of kidney cancer, a disease she herself had revealed last May. “I have a few months left to live,” she had said, and so it was.

His publishing house, Mondadori, for which he had published ‘Tre Ciotole’, publishes a tweet with a simple message “Ciao Michela” and a red heart on a photo of her smiling as she leafs through a book.

Hi Michele ❤️ pic.twitter.com/disO8AUNx8

— Mondadori (@Mondadori) August 10, 2023

Condolence messages from those who had appreciated her are multiplying on social networks, but also from those who found themselves on the opposite side of her civil battles. Last July she had married her partner civilly Lorenzo, Terence, sixteen years younger. Marriage that took place a few weeks ago not without controversy as the writer underlined the need to contract the wedding to see the rights of the partner and of what she defined as guaranteed the ‘queer family’.

In fact, following the writer – once she moved into the new house with garden – she organized a big party to celebrate and celebrate the union of the group and sharing. He also attended the party Roberto Saviano, considered to be part of the group. The participants were all dressed in white, as if they were all newlyweds.

But not only. “The ritual we would have liked does not exist”, said Michela Murgia, sparking controversy around the idea of ​​marriage.

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Michelle Murgia

Michelle Murgia, born in Cabras on 3 June 1972of Catholic formation, before starting her career as a writer she carried out various activities, including that of religion teacher: among others, the experience as a telephone saleswoman poured into her first book, “The world must know” (2006), a sort of blog on the world of call centers and multinationals that will inspire the play of the same name and the successful film “Whole life ahead“.

Very attached to her roots, in 2008 she published for Einaudi “Viaggio in Sardegna”, a literary guide to the lesser-known places on the island. Two years later, again for Einaudi, “Accabadora”a novel that interweaves the themes of euthanasia and adoption on the island in the 1950s: with this he first wins the Dessìe Prize and then the SuperMondello and the Campiello.

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Michelle Murgia

In 2011 he published “Ave Mary”, reflection on the role of women and the Church. Among the following works the novel “The meeting” (2012), which analyzes the themes of sharing and affinities; the short essay on feminicide “I killed her because I loved her. False!” (with Loredana Lipperini, 2013); the novel “Chiru'” (2015) and “Future interior” (2016).

At the Sardinian regional elections in 2014, he presented the possible Sardinian coalition, which did not pass the barrier established by law.

Michela Murgia was married from 2010 to 2014 with Manuel Persicoa computer scientist from Bergamo twelve years younger.