La ragazza con la Leica

Name: La ragazza con la Leica
ISBN: 9788823520288

by Helena Janeczek

Premio Strega · 2018 · Winner

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GuandaJune 6, 2017Literary Fiction Historical FictionISBN 9788823520288

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Award	Year	Status	Citation
Premio Strega	2018	Winner

About This Book

A biographical novel about Gerda Taro, the German-Jewish photographer and companion of Robert Capa who became the first female photojournalist to die in combat, covering the Spanish Civil War in 1937.

About the Author

Helena JaneczekIT

Helena Janeczek is a German-born Italian novelist and journalist born in 1964 in Munich to a family of Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors. She moved to Italy in 1983 and writes in Italian, her acquired language. Her work engages deeply with the history of the Holocaust, Jewish memory, and the experience of displaced identities. Read more →