After Goliarda Sapienza’s death in 1996, her husband Angelo Pellegrino opened a locked-up chest and gave her a new life. Inside he found the manuscript of her seminal novel, The Art of Joy, and published it at his own expense. Today the novel is published in Italy by Einaudi and translated all over the world, including English-speaking countries, and is on its way to becoming an international TV series adapted by actress and director Valeria Golino who was a student of Goliarda’s growing up, and has stayed in love with her hypnotic voice ever since.
