The daughter of a textile machinery entrepreneur and the director of an embroidery workshop, after completing her classical high school education, she graduated from the Faculty of
Philosophy at the
University of Milan. In 1986, she began working with the
Longanesi publishing house: her debut novel, La ragazza col turbante (The Girl with the Turban), was a finalist for the
Strega Prize and has been translated into nine languages. His subsequent works enjoyed similar critical acclaim: in 1988, L'invenzione della verità (The Invention of Truth) (Campiello Selection Prize); in 1992, Casa materna (Mother's House) (Campiello Selection Prize); and in 1997, Il caso Courrier (The Courrier Case) (Campiello Prize). She has also written theater
Magazine for specialized magazines. In 1995, Corbaccio published his translation of
Edith Wharton The Gods Arrive under the title Il canto delle muse (The Song of the Muses). He taught literature at a technical institute in
Gallarate. He has been a member of the technical jury of the Chiara Prize on several occasions (including as president), which he won in 2019. As she herself stated, reading
Cesare Pavese,
Marcel Proust, and contemporary Scandinavian fiction was fundamental to her vocation as a writer. == Selected works ==