Paulette Cherici-Porello

Paulette Cherici-Porello (27 August 1924 – 21 September 2018) was a Monegasque writer and poet. She was known as the only female author in Monegasque language and was considered the most important living writer of Monegasque literature. She was the first female president of the National Committee for Monegasque Traditions, and the president of the Union of Monegasque Women.

Life Paulette Cherici-Porello was born on 27 August 1924. She was a direct descendant of one of about thirty original Ligurian families who founded the Principality of Monaco settling there in the thirteenth century. Cherici-Porello's parents spoke Monegasque fluently: her father was one of the Monegasque native speakers interviewed in the 1940s by Prof. Arveiller of Paris to create the first Monegasque-French dictionary.

Work In 1986, Cherici-Porello published her first collection of poems and stories “Mésccia”. The second book “Antebrün” was published in 2012. She was the first female president of the National Committee for Monegasque Traditions and president of the Union of Monegasque Women.

Paulette Cherici-Porello died on 21 September 2018 at the age of 94.