Fabrizia Ramondino

Fabrizia Ramondino (1936–2008) was an Italian author who has many works "which includes and crosses the boundaries between poetry, novels, plays, travelogues, memoirs, confession, self-reflection, anthropological, cultural and linguistic comment" according to Adalgisa Giorgio, who has conducted research of Ramondino's life and works.

Ramondino's life Fabrizia Ramondino was born in Naples in 1936 and moved to the island of Majorca that same year after her father was named Italian consul. For the rest of her life, she lived in different countries, including France, Germany, and Italy. Her travels also took her to China, Quebec, Australia and the Sahara. Ramondino spent many years in Naples which is the culture she relates to most in her writing. During her time in Naples, Ramondino volunteered as a teacher at the Associazione Risveglio Napoli school. She obtained a degree in languages at Naples Eastern University. She also worked as a French teacher at multiple state schools. She was a political and social activist for Centro di Coordinamento Campano, "a small organisation of the new left which worked primarily with the urban unemployed and poor agricultural labourers". By doing so, she sets her work apart and allows herself to observe the "mores of the middle and upper bourgeoisie, with the class consciousness of a materialist" and making her "an exile in her own homeland". This perspective that she has in her writing is demonstrated as she approaches the Neapolitan language and also as an outsider. Ramondino "only occasionally inserts words of Neapolitan origin" into her work. She also often uses footnotes to help one understand these words. Ramondino wraps her audience in this sense of looking in from the outside of culture in her readings. She intertwines them flawlessly into the culture of the cities her stories are set in.

Selected works Her works include: Torie di patio (1983) Star di casa (1991) In viaggio (1995) L’isola riflessa (1998)