Nuorese Cultural DistrictMaria Giacobbe (b. Nuoro, 14 August 1928) is an Italian writer and essayist and naturalised Dane.
Maria Giacobbe
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She is the daughter of the antifascist founder of the Sardinian Action Party, Dino Giacobbe, and Graziella Sechi, a teacher who was also persecuted by the fascist regime.
In 1956, she became a contributor to the weekly magazine Il Mondo, edited by Pannunzio, later also contributing to various other Italian and foreign periodicals. She won numerous rewards for her work as a journalist, including the Iglesias Journalism Prize in 1985, for her contributions to the newspaper L'Unione Sarda.
She debuted as author writing about her experience as a young teacher in Diario di una maestrina (1957), which won the Viareggio-Opera Prima prize and the UDI Palma d'oro.
She has written dozens of books, including novels, short story collections and poetry anthologies, contributing to knowledge of Sardinian and Italian culture in Denmark and Danish culture in Italy.
The film Arcipelaghi, made in 2000 by the director Giovanni Columbu, is based on Giacobbe’s novel by the same name.