Once Too Radical for Italy, Goliarda Sapienza Is Belatedly Getting Her Due
The Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996). Unconventional and independent, she found the pretension and ideological orthodoxy of the postwar Italian intelligentsia suffocating. Years after her death, her books are being republished and she is now considered a feminist icon in her native country.Credit.Archivio Sapienza Pellegrino
By Anna Momigliano
May 13, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
Goliarda Sapienza yearned for an audience. An actress turned writer at the cusp of middle age, and now considered a feminist icon in her native Italy, she felt that telling one’s story is what gives existence meaning. “Life is always a novel left unwritten if we leave it buried inside of us, and I believe in literature,” she wrote in
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Feb. 3, 2021
Israeli actress Haya Harareet, who became a star around the world in 1959 after portraying Esther, the hero’s love interest in the blockbuster masterpiece “Ben-Hur,” died Wednesday at her home in Buckinghamshire, England. She was 89.
Harareet was one of the first Israeli actors to break into Hollywood, but she couldn’t sustain her success and retired in the ‘60s. Her niece Tamar Tessler, who lives in Israel, said Harareet died overnight in her sleep. Her ashes will be scattered in Israel.
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Haya Harareet. Despite her MGM contract she failed to retain her stardom.Credit: Harry Pot