Nicoletta Vallorani (born 7 February 1959) is an Italian science fiction writer.
Biography 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.CCWW profile, https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/research-centres/centre-study-contemporary-womens-writing/ccww-languages/italian/nicoletta-vallorani
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, and columns.
Starting in the mid-1980s, she published novels and short-story collections.
She won the Premio Urania in 1992 with the novel Il cuore finto di DR, a science fiction/noir cross-pollination published by Mondadori under the Urania imprint the following year, and also translated into French. She also writes noir and children's literature.
In 2012 her novel Le madri cattive won the Premio Nazionale di Narrativa Maria Teresa Di Lascia.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/ In 2020 her novel Avrai i miei occhi (Zona 42) was longlisted for the Premio Campiello and Premio Napoli.
Her latest novel is Noi siamo campo di battaglia (Zona 42)
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) Noi siamo campo di battaglia (2022)
Work translated into English "The Catalog of Virgins" (translated by Rachel S. Cordasco), Clarkesworld magazine (2017)
References
External links Vallorani's blog at Il Fatto Quotidiano (active 2012–2014) Biography of Vallorani in Fantascienza Altre Modernità (Co-director) Le parole e le cose (member) Nicoletta Vallorani profile at the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women's Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research