Nicoletta Vallorani
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Nicoletta Vallorani is an Italian science fiction writer.
Born in the Marche region, she holds a degree in Foreign Languages with a dissertation on Contemporary American Literature, honed her writing skills as a translator and currently teaches English Language and Literature in the Statale University, Milan.
Her work as an essayst focuses on Italian science fiction criticism, and science fiction from women in particular. She contributed to various genre magazines, including Cosmo, La città e le stelle. Studi e ricerche sulla fantascienza» and «Ucronia». For Mondadori she did volume prefaces, articles, interviews, columns.
Starting in the mid 1980s she published novels and short-story collections. She won the Premio Urania 1992 with the novel Il cuore finto di DR, a science fiction/noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the «Urania» inprint the following year, and also translated in French. She also writes noir and kids literature.
Published works
- Dream box, Mondadori «Urania», 1997
- Dentro la notte, e ciao, Granata Press, 1995 (ed. Gallimard, 1997)
- La fidanzata di Zorro, Marcos y Marcos, 1996 (Gallimard, 1999)
- Luca De Luca detto Lince, E. Elle, 1997
- Pagnotta e i suoi fratelli, E. Elle, 1997
- Ahab e Azul, E. Elle, 1997
- Cuore meticcio, Marcos y Marcos, 1998
- I misti di Sur, ADN Kronos Libri, 1998
- Darjee, ADN Kronos Libri, 1999
- Le sorelle sciacallo, Derive e Approdi, 1999
- Occhi di lupo, E. Elle, 2000
- Come una balena, Salani, 2000
- La fatona, Salani, 2002
- Eva, Einaudi «Stile Libero» 2002