Luciana Castellina

Luciana Castellina (born 9 August 1929) is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist.

Biography Castellina was born in Rome on 9 August 1929. She graduated in law from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1947, she joined the Italian Communist Party. Castellina started her career in journalism in the 1950s, working for the daily newspaper Paese Sera. She later worked for several other newspapers, including L'Unità, il manifesto, and Liberazione. Her writings focused on issues such as workers' rights, feminism, and communism. In 1974, she was co-founder of the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism. She served four terms in Italy's Chamber of Deputies and twenty years in the European Parliament. As a member of the European Parliament, she served as chair of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media and of the Committee on External Economic Relations. She served as editor of Nuova Generazione, a Communist youth magazine, and of Liberazione, and also played an important role at il manifesto.

Personal life Luciana Castellina was married to Italian Communist Party leader Alfredo Reichlin. They have two children, Lucrezia and Pietro, both of them economists.

Electoral history ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult 1976 Chamber of Deputies Como–Sondrio–Varese DP 2,862 Elected 1979 Chamber of Deputies Como–Sondrio–Varese PdUP 1,598 Elected 1979 European Parliament Central Italy PdUP 14,957 Elected 1983 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PCI 30,044 Elected 1984 European Parliament North-East Italy PCI 89,998 Elected 1989 European Parliament Central Italy PCI 75,826 Elected 1992 Chamber of Deputies Perugia–Terni–Rieti PRC 3,105 Elected 1994 European Parliament Central Italy PRC 68,127 Elected

Selected books Cinquant'anni d'Europa (2007) Eurollywood, Il difficile ingresso della cultura nella costruzione dell'Europa (2008) La scoperta del mondo (2011), a finalist for the Strega Prize Siberiana (2012), winner of the Letterario Vallombrosa Prize Guardati dalla mia fame (2014), with Milena Agus Manuale antiretorico dell'Unione Europea (2016)