Vita gazette – Michela Murgia died. The writer was 51 years old and had been ill with stage four carcinoma, of which she had spoken. The funeral will be held tomorrow at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto, the Church of the Artists, at 3.30 pm.

The writer Michela Murgia died today. She revealed her kidney cancer illness in an interview with Aldo Cazzullo last May. “Cancer is not something I have; it’s a thing that I am,” she said.

On 11 June, Murgia announced her withdrawal from public meetings. In mid-July, she married “in articulo mortis” Lorenzo Terenzi (1988), actor, director and musician. With his best-known novel, “Accabadora” (Einaudi, 2009), she won the Campiello prize. Her latest book, “Three Bowls. Rituals for a Year of Crisis” (Mondadori, 2023), immediately entered the top of the charts of best-selling volumes.

She revealed in May that she was suffering from stage four kidney cancer. After making her illness public, the writer, playwright, and columnist recounted her private moments on social media, celebrating her queer family and continuing her battles as an activist for rights. The funeral will be held tomorrow at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Montesanto, the Church of the Artists, at 3.30 pm.

Born in Cabras in 1972, Michela Murgia debuted with The world must know (2006), a tragicomic novel about the world of call centres, which inspired the play of the same name and the film Whole Life Ahead (2008). Very attached to her land, in 2008, she signed Journey to Sardinia. Two years later, Accabadora was released, with the Super Mondello and Campiello awards, while Ave Mary was released in 2011, a reflection on the role of women in the Catholic context.

Among his later works, Present, The Meeting. In the short essay on femicide, I killed her because I loved her. False!; and again, Inner Future, Hell is a good memory, the essay Instructions to become fascists, We are the storm. Stories without heroes that changed the world. Shut up; God saves the queer. Catechismo feminist and finally, the last Three bowls immediately entered the top of the sales charts. On June 11, Murgia announced his retirement from public activity.