アルバ ドナーティ（Alba Donati）は、イタリアの詩人・書店主。トスカーナ地方のルッカ出身で、フィレンツェで出版広報や作家のプロモーション、文学イベントの企画に携わってきた。1993年に詩誌『Poesia』で作品を発表し、新聞で詩の批評や紹介を手がける一方、国際的な作家を招く文学祭の運営にも参加した。詩作と読者を結ぶ仕事を続けたのち、2019年、故郷のルチニャーナに書店「リブレリア・ソプラ・ラ・ペンナ」を開く。人口180人の村で店を営む日々を綴った『丘の上の小さな本屋さん』（原題 La libreria sulla collina、英題 Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop）では、クラウドファンディングによる開業、火災やコロナ禍の困難、村人や遠方から訪れる読者との交流を記録する。151日間の日記に家族の記憶や自身の読書体験を重ね、その日の注文書籍を添えることで、一冊の本を必要とする人に届ける書店の日常を描いた。文学を発信する出版の現場から、小さな村で読者を迎える場所へという歩みが、この記録の背景にある。2025年の Ragazze che scrivono poesie では、エミリー ディキンソン、アンナ アフマートワ、アントニア ポッツィら女性詩人の人生と作品をたどる。日々の習慣や人間関係、置かれた社会状況から詩の言葉に近づくこの本にも、文学を個人の暮らしと切り離さずに読む姿勢が表れている。2025年にはモンターレ・フオーリ・ディ・カーザ賞の「Il genio delle donne」部門を受賞し、詩と書店を通じた活動が評価された。
Alba Donati is an Italian poet and bookseller from Lucca in Tuscany. She worked in publishing publicity, author promotion and literary events in Florence, bringing writers and readers together alongside her own writing. Her poems appeared in the magazine Poesia in 1993, and she subsequently wrote about poetry for newspapers and helped organize literary festivals involving international authors. In 2019 she opened Libreria Sopra la Penna in her home village of Lucignana. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop, originally published in Italian as La libreria sulla collina and translated into Japanese as 丘の上の小さな本屋さん, recounts the experience of running a bookstore in a village of 180 residents. Across 151 days of diary entries, she records crowdfunding, a fire, pandemic restrictions and encounters with local residents and visiting readers. Lists of books ordered each day accompany family memories and reflections on reading, showing the practical and personal work of finding a particular book for a particular person. The diary gives a concrete setting to her move from promoting literature within publishing to welcoming readers into a small village shop. In Ragazze che scrivono poesie (2025), she approaches the lives and work of women poets including Emily Dickinson, Anna Akhmatova and Antonia Pozzi through their homes, habits, relationships and social circumstances. These portraits connect the language of poetry to the everyday lives from which it emerged. Her work as a writer and bookseller shares this attention to literature as part of lived experience and human relationships. In 2025 she received the Premio Montale Fuori di Casa in its Il genio delle donne category, recognizing her poetry and the cultural life created around her bookshop.
