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Release of Myrta Merlino memoir

Overview

Journalist Myrta Merlino has released a memoir titled ‘La bambina del miracolo. Storia della mia mamma geniale’ through the publisher La Nave di Teseo. The book chronicles the life of her mother, Annamaria Palermo, a prominent sinologist and academic.

Palermo’s life included studying in Paris during the 1968 protests and becoming one of the first 500 Westerners permitted to study in China during the Cultural Revolution. Her career involved roles at the University of Naples, Columbia University, and as the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing. The memoir explores Palermo’s professional achievements alongside the personal tensions caused by her unconventional lifestyle and pursuit of emancipation, specifically detailing her experiences through the 1960s and the lens of feminism.

Entities

Myrta Merlino · Annamaria Palermo · La nave di Teseo · Corrado Augias · Tu sí que vales

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Timeline

  1. [CULTURE] 13 sources
    Italy: New book releases and social media awareness appeal

    New book releases include memoirs by Myrta Merlino and an investigation by Natalia and Corrado Augias, alongside a moving social media awareness appeal on the TV show ‘Tu si que vales’.

  2. [CULTURE] 5 sources
    Myrta Merlino releases memoir about her mother, sinologist Annamaria Palermo

    Journalist Myrta Merlino’s new book, ‘La bambina del miracolo’, profiles her mother, Annamaria Palermo, a pioneering sinologist and academic who lived through the 1968 protests and the Cultural Revolution.

Sources

canaledieci.it · dilei.it · donnapop.it · egnews.it · forchecaudine.it · lamilano.it · LaStampa.it · lecodellitorale.it · mantovauno.it · materanews.net · notizie.it · quotidiano.net · quotidianodibari.it · quotidianodifoggia.it · trapanisi.it · unmondoditaliani.com · vetrinatv.it · vglobale.it

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