Rosa Matteucci

Rosa Matteucci is an Italian writer. Born in 1960 in Orvieto, she lives in Genoa. She made her debut in 1998 with the novel Lourdes (Adelphi, winner in 1999 of the Bagutta Prize for a Debut Work and the Grinzane Cavour Prize – Young Debut Author Section). She has contributed to various newspapers; in 2012 she won the Guido Carletti Journalism Prize for a feature on Romania published in the magazine Sette, an insert of the Corriere della Sera newspaper.