The Modern Novel

Biography

Fausta Cialente was born in Cagliari in 1898. However, her mother was from Trieste and Cialente always considered Trieste her spiritual home. Her father was in the military so she moved around a lot as a child. In 1921 she married Enrico Terni and they moved to Alexandria, Egypt. During the war, she kept in contact with the Italian Resistance and spoke out against the Fascists on Radio Cairo. She started writing novels in the late 1920s but then gave up till after the war. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Le quattro ragazze Wieselberger [The Four Wieselberger Girls]. She died in England in 1994.

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Fausta Cialente (in Italian)
Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) (in Italian)
Fausta Cialente (1898-1994) (in Italian)