Until the end he didn't give up taking a stand and telling his battles on the web. Michela Murgia died yesterday in Rome at the age of 51.

The author of Cabras had revealed a few months ago that she had stage four renal cell carcinoma.

Protagonist of the literary world, she wrote "The world must know", a tragicomic novel born from her experience as a telephone saleswoman in call centers, in 2010 the great success of "Accabadora" with which she received the Super Mondello award and the Campiello, in 2011 "Ave Mary", an unfiltered reflection on the role of women in the Catholic context. And again, among others, the short essay on femicide “I killed her because I loved her. False!", "Inner future", "Hell is a good memory", and then the last "Three bowls - Rituals for a year of crisis", immediately entered the top of the best-selling charts: a novel that opened about the diagnosis of cancer, a novel made up of stories that fit together and in which the protagonists are going through a radical change that forces each of them to new forms of emotional survival.

Among the most recent posts on social media is the criticism of Rai's decision to cancel Roberto Saviano's program "Insider" from the schedules and, a few days later, the message from the hospital, the smile and the oxygen nasal cannulas , to update friends and fans on his condition - "I may be better, but not well" - and "thank you" for the possibility of being treated, "in defiance of those who demonize those who pay taxes".

The attack against the Northern League mayor of Ventimiglia bears the date of August 5 for having prevented migrants crossing the border from getting supplies of water at the cemetery.

On 15 July she had married Lorenzo Terenzi "in articulo mortis", with the clarification: «It's not a party. We did it reluctantly: if we had had another way to guarantee each other's rights we would never have resorted to such a patriarchal and limited tool, which forces us to reduce a much richer and stronger experience to the representation of the couple, where the number 2 is the opposite of who we are. No wishes, therefore, because the ritual we would have liked does not yet exist. But it will exist and we want to help bring it to life».

Surrounded by her queer family of ten people and her four "soul" children (the oldest aged 35, the youngest aged 20), Murgia faced the last stages of the disease: "I can bear a lot of pain, but I can't not to be present to myself», she told Corriere in May, revealing that, after the first lung cancer years ago, the tumor had returned to the kidney and the metastases had already reached the lungs, the bones, the brain. "But don't call me a warrior, I hate the military," he warned in a crowded public meeting at the latest Turin Book Fair. “Am I tired of being antagonistic? In a normal, civilized country, what I do is done by intellectuals and no one is dragged to court. It is the only country that defines itself as democratic where intellectuals are persecuted by power», he said forcefully on that occasion. «In a world of cowards everything is an act of courage. I say what I think."

Great condolences on social media, where many messages are crowded in these hours.

For the Regional Council of Sardinia, the president Michele Pais expressed his pain for this dramatic news: «A great loss for our land. His intellectual vivacity enriched democracy."

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