In this space, we pay homage to the women writers who have lived, written, fought and inspired throughout the centuries, and have shaped literature and given form to new visions of the world.
Each month of the year is dedicated to a woman writer born on the first day of that month, symbolically elected as a guide and inspiration for the following weeks.
Through a brief biography and reading suggestions chosen to delve deeper into the work of the writer of the month, the themes dear to her or the historical and cultural context in which she lived, we invite you to discover the female literary heritage and each month to listen to a different but equally powerful voice.
The month of June is dedicated to the Australian-born writer Colleen McCullough
1st June 1937 – 29th January 2015
On June 1st, the writer Colleen McCullough was born in Wellington, Australia. She wrote the famous novels “The Thorn Birds” and “The Ladies of Missalonghi”. Colleen began studying medicine at university, but then specialized in neuroscience and taught in the neurology department of a medical school in the United States. During this period, she wrote The Thorn Birds, which inspired a television series in the 1980s. Later, after carefully and thoroughly researching, she wrote an epic work, “The Masters of Rome”: seven novels set in the era of Julius Cesar, each a thousand pages long. Thanks to the success of these books, she devoted herself entirely to writing.
Recommended readings of the month:
– The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
– The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
– The First Man in Rome by Colleen McCullough
– The Grass Crown by Colleen McCullough
– Fortune’s Favourites by Colleen McCullough
– Caesar’s Women by Colleen McCullough
– Caesar by Colleen McCullough
– The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
– Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen McCullough