Nicoletta Vallorani

Nicoletta Vallorani (born 7 February 1959) is an Italian science fiction writer.

Nicoletta Vallorani
Born (1959-02-07) 7 February 1959
Offida, Italy
OccupationWriter, translator, academic, blogger
LanguageItalian
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Milan
GenreScience fiction, noir
Years active1992–present

Born in Offida, 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 University of Milan, Milan.[1]

Her work as an essayist 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.

In 2012 her novel Le madri cattive won the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Maria Teresa Di Lascia.[2] In 2020 it was reported she was longlisted for the Premio Campiello.

Bibliography
  • Il cuore finto di DR (1992)
  • Dream box (1997)
  • Dentro la notte, e ciao (1995)
  • La fidanzata di Zorro (1999)
  • Luca De Luca detto Lince (1997)
  • Pagnotta e i suoi fratelli (1997)
  • Ahab e Azul (1997)
  • Cuore meticcio (1998)
  • I misti di Sur (1998)
  • Darjee (1999)
  • Le sorelle sciacallo (1999)
  • Occhi di lupo (2000)
  • Come una balena (2000)
  • La fatona (2002)
  • Eva (2002)
  • Visto dal cielo (2004)
  • Cordelia (2006)
  • Lapponi e criceti (2010)
  • Le madri cattive (2011)
  • Sulla sabbia di Sur (2012)
  • Hope - L'ultimo segreto del fuoco (2013)
  • Le sorelle sciacallo (2017)
  • Avrai i miei occhi (2020)

Work translated into English
  • "The Catalog of Virgins" (translated by Rachel S. Cordasco), Clarkesworld magazine (2017)
gollark: I would look it up, except I have no idea what search queries to try.
gollark: The thing I was looking at involved sticking somewhat general-purpose computers into the RAM chips, not just having dedicated analog computers for things.
gollark: I've heard about more general ways to achieve similar sorts of thing, like sticking HBM stuff onto GPUs and some computing-in-memory thing.
gollark: And brains are annoying to do things with since they're not understood very well and can't be copied/run in simulation very easily.
gollark: Running neural nets in analog hardware would also be kind of disadvantageous, since you couldn't then copy them very easily or run them on new stuff.

References
  1. CCWW profile, https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/ccww-languages/italian/nicoletta-vallorani
  2. Commune di Fiuminata, 17 September 2012, https://www.comune.fiuminata.mc.it/comunicati-cms/nicoletta-vallorani-vince-la-sesta-edizione-del-premio-nazionale-di-narrativa-%E2%80%9Cmaria-teresa-di-lascia%E2%80%9D/
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