Daughter of writer Carlo Mazzantini and an Irish painter
She and her husband have 4 children: Pietro (b. 1992), Maria (b. 1997),
Anna (b. 2001) and Cesare (b. summer 2006).
Italian writer, winner of the 2002's Premio Strega (an Italian prize
for literature) for her book "Non ti muovere". Her husband Sergio Castellitto
directed Don't Move (2004), a movie based on her book, in which she appears,
uncredited.