Overview
- Duranti died in Lucca on 30 October at the age of 90, according to Italian media reports.
- The funeral is scheduled for 3 November at 15:00 at the Casa del commiato della Croce Verde on Via Romana in Lucca.
- She broke through with La casa sul lago della luna (1984), a Premio Strega finalist that won the Premio Bagutta.
- Across a four‑decade career she received the Campiello, Hemingway and Rapallo‑Carige prizes, and her work was translated into eighteen languages.
- Born Maria Francesca Rossi in Genoa on 2 January 1935, she was the daughter of jurist Paolo Rossi and later divided her life between Lucca and New York, co‑founding Lucca’s Premio dei Lettori in 1988.