Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) was one of the first self-declared feminist Italian writers. Her early work anticipated modern feminism by decades, however, distribution was limited by the Fascist censorship that followed her refusal to cut depictions of a lesbian affair from her first book Natalia. Cialente returned home after the war, and after a long silence, she began publishing again in 1961, eventually winning the prestigious Strega Prize in 1976. Cialente spent the last period of her life in Pangbourne, England, working mainly on translations into Italian from English, and she remained there until her death at the age of ninety-six.
