Beatrice Monroy

Beatrice Monroy (born 1953) is an Italian writer and dramatist.

Biography
Beatrice Monroy was born and lives in Palermo, having spent many years in various Italian cities and abroad in France and the United States. She is the daughter of Anna Oddo Monroy and Italian-American scientist.

She is an author of short stories, theatrical texts, and novels. In 2005 she wrote the poem "Portella della Ginestra: Indice dei nomi proibiti," in which she recalled the Portella della Ginestra massacre on 1 May 1947. The subtitle "Index of Prohibited Names" evokes the historical Index of Prohibited Books and refers to the instigators of the crime, still officially unknown.

In 2012 her book Niente ci fu ('There was nothing') was published,  dedicated to the life of rape survivor Franca Viola, who rebelled against forced marriage in Sicily. Franca Viola, interviewed by Concita De Gregorio, told her truth about this sequence of events in her life.

Monroy's novel Oltre il vasto oceano: memoria parziale di bambina (Beyond the vast ocean: A girl's partial memory)    was nominated for the Strega Prize in 2014,  and it won the 2014 Kaos Prize. The next year, 2015, Monroy published her novel Dido: operetta pop,   a modern Dido's journey "halfway between the epic and the comic, legend and reality, the mythic and the contemporary."

Beatrice Monroy works in cooperation with Rai 3 Radio, directs an editorial series titled Passaggi di donne ('Passages of women'), and has conducted writing workshops for women who were victims of violence. She teaches dramaturgy at the School of Arts and Theatrical Performance Trades at the Biondo Theater Company of Palermo directed by Emma Dante.

Works

 * Uccisioni stesso luogo stessa gente ('Murders, same place, same people'), Massa Carrara: Società editrice Apuana, 1990
 * Noi, i palermitani ('We, the Palermitans), Genoa: Marietti, 1991, ISBN 978-8821168918
 * Palermo in tempo di peste ('Palermo in the time of plague'), Palermo: Edizioni della Battaglia, 1992
 * Barbablu : il volo il delitto ('Bluebeard: The flight, the crime'), Palermo: Edizioni della battaglia, 2002
 * Portella della Ginestra. Indice dei nomi proibiti ('Portella della Ginestra: Index of prohibited names'), presentation by Carmelo Diliberto, preface by Gianguido Palumbo, introduction by Fabrizio Loreto, Rome: Ediesse, 2005, ISBN 978-8823010482
 * Carmelo e gli altri : un racconto ('Carmelo and the others: A story'), Rome: Liberetà, 2006
 * Tutti in scena : manuale per laboratori di teatro e drammaturgia ('Everybody onstage: Manual for theater and dramaturgy workshops'), Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2010, ISBN 978-8861531345
 * Elegia delle donne morte ('Elegy for the dead women'), Marsala/Palermo: Navarra, 2011 ISBN 978-88-95756-48-6
 * Niente ci fu ('There was nothing'), Beatrice Monroy, Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2012, ISBN 978-8861532724
 * Marius Scalesi, il ragazzo di razza incerta ('Marius Scalesi, the lad of uncertain race'), Molfetta: La Meridiana, 2013, ISBN 978-8861533752
 * Oltre il vasto oceano : memoria parziale di bambina ('Beyond the vast ocean: A girl's partial memory'), Rome: Avagliano, 2013, ISBN 978-8883093760
 * Il libro delle vergini imprudenti (The book of impulsive virgins), a collective novel by Enzo Di Pasquale, Rossella Floridia, Adriana Iacono, Beatrice Monroy, Muriel Pavoni, and Elena Pistillo. Palermo: Navarra Editore, 2014, ISBN 978-8898865017
 * Dido: operetta pop ('Dido: A pop operetta'), Rome: Avagliano, 2015, ISBN 978-8883092930