"I write all the time, writing is one of my passions and, yes, it's not out of the question that a new book of mine may come out soon, even if I don't anticipate anything." This was said in a meeting at the Umanitaria in Milan by the young Neapolitan writer Natalia Vacca, author of 'L'alba delnulla' which has already won several awards.
A student, still 17 years old, Natalia is a revelation in the literary world especially for her chosen genre. In love with ancient Greece, and with Homer's Iliad in particular, in her book, published a few months ago, she describes her in the first person as Astyanax, whose father Hector was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War. According to the prevailing version, the child would also have died, thrown from a cliff, but Natalia follows the hypothesis that instead he was saved and resumes his story as a thirteen-year-old boy, forced to wander under a false name.
The student of the Umberto I high school in Naples is not only a promising writer. Months ago, in fact, she had also won the Italian selections for the World Neuroscience Olympiad, received for this by the mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi, who presented her with the City Medal. "I will continue to write, but now one of my goals is to pass the tests to enroll in medical school. he said in the meeting organized by the Association I Cavalieri dellaTavola Campana which has been promoting Neapolitan culture in Lombardy for years - My dream is to become a doctor, above all to do good to others".
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