Alessandra Appiano (30 May 1959 – 3 June 2018) was an Italian novelist and journalist.[1]

With her first novel Amiche di salvataggio she won the Bancarella award the following year.

For the same publishing house, she made other books sucy as Domani ti perdono (2003), Scegli me (2005), Le vie delle signore sono infinite (2006) and Le belle e le Bestie (2007), four other novels describing - with irony and participation - the feminine universe of our time, also being translated into France, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and Spain.

Appiano published for Garzanti Il cerchio degli amori sospesi (2010) and Solo un uomo (2013), and Ti meriti un amore (2017).[2]

Appiano died by suicide on 3 June 2018 at the age of 59.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "È morta a Milano la scrittrice Alessandra Appiano". La Stampa (in Italian). 6 June 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
  2. ^ Alessandra Appiano Ambrogino d'oro 2014(in Italian)
  3. ^ Addio ad Alessandra Appiano, una scrittrice dalla parte delle donne: aveva 59 anni (in Italian)