Patrizia Marinelli is a writer from Rome whose passion for writing began in childhood. Some of her works were selected for publication in 1989 in Il Corriere della Sera’s school contest “If I were the mayor, in my neighborhood I would…” and she won several small literary prizes, such as the E.I.P. essay award “School as an instrument of peace” in 1995, the European contest of the Movement for Life, essay section, “Life: a choice for each person and for Europe” in 1996, and the poetry award “The Dawn of the Third Millennium” by the “La Conca” Association in 2001.With the project “Listen to the Silence” in 2007, a collection of poems paired with emotional images, the author developed the idea that the fusion of different arts—poetry, music, literature, and painting—leads to a better representation of emotions and enhances their perception. In her subsequent works, she included musical references connected to the emotions that the scenes in her novels aim to evoke.She has published three novels. “Like Twins in the Womb” is her first novel, part of the new young adult literary genre. It received the diploma of honor in the Ali Penna d’Autore literary contest in 2013, the diploma of merit in the Albatros literary contest in 2014, and was a finalist among the top 200 most beautiful novels in Italy in the Tre Colori Inventa un Film 2022 literary contest. It tells the story of a young girl, Domiziana, who, due to bad friendships and irrational choices by her older sister, suffers a series of adolescent traumas connected to her first romantic experiences and drugs, as well as the death of her beloved sister, who was like a twin to her. Domiziana finds a way to overcome these events through love.In July 2020, she published the novel “Give Dreams a Reason,” participating in the Amazon Storyteller 2020 literary contest. The novel is a continuation of “Like Twins in the Womb” but maintains an independent plot. Also fitting into the Young Adult genre, it can be classified as a sentimental-psychological novel. It received an honorable mention at the international Montefiore literary award in 2018 and was a finalist in the renowned “Io Scrittore 2019” literary contest out of 3500 participants as an unpublished novel. In this new novel, Domiziana, the protagonist of “Like Twins in the Womb,” who seemed to have reached a state of calm and rationality after her “vibrant” and somewhat painful adolescence, is haunted by violent dreams that recall a male figure from her past with whom she had a brief flirtation. Domiziana will question her relationship with Ivan, her current boyfriend, her feelings for him, and the relative balance she had achieved. Her emotional curiosity to discover what happened to the boy who appears in her dreams asking desperately for help will be rekindled. Initially, she thinks these dreams are mere fantasies, a result of an unfulfilled love repressed by rationality, but she will eventually discover, too late and after destroying the certainties she had built, that the boy in the dreams truly needed her.“Ma che freddo fa,” republished in 2022, stands out from her previous novels, being a sentimental novel set in a historical context: although love remains the central theme, it is set during the years of La Dolce Vita, with references to fascism and post-fascism. Inspired by a true story and adorned with musical references from the 60s and 70s, the novel received recognition as a finalist in the “Enzo Rossotti” historical novels award and placed 3rd in the renowned international literary prize Mediolanum “Un Certain Regard.”Read more about this authorRead less about this author