Marina Colasanti

Marina Colasanti (born September 26, 1937 in Asmara, old Italian colony in Eritrea) is an Italian writer, translator and journalist. She lived in Libya during her infancy, and then she moved to Italy, where she lived for eleven years. Her family moved to Brazil in 1948 due to the difficult conditions in Europe after World War II.
In Brazil, she studied fine arts and worked as a journalist and a translator of Italian literature. She has published many books, including works of poetry, collections of short stories and children's literature. She is married to the writer Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna.