Toni Maraini

Toni Maraini (Antonella Maraini), is an art historian, a writer and a poet. She lived in Morocco  from 1964 to 1987 where she taught at the école des Beaux Arts and at the Institut de communication audiovisuelle in Casablanca, as well as at the University of Rabat. In Morocco she took part in cultural initiatives, undertook important research and published many articles and essays. In Rome she has directed the Moravia Foundation, translated several writers and poets and published countless articles, reviews, essays,and several books, including: écrits sur l’Art; Une Collection, une mémoire; Anno 1424; Ultimo tè a Marrakeshe nuovi racconti; Imago; Diario di Viaggio in America; Ricordi d’arte e prigionia; Fuga dall’Impero; Lettera da Benares; Poemad’Oriente; and Le porte del Vento.