By day she manages engineering projects among the modern architecture of Oslo. By night, she opens dimensional passages to fantastic worlds, between music, archaeology and creatures born from her imagination. Rossana Porcu, from Quartu, class, determination and a sharp pen, has transformed a passion cultivated in silence into an original voice of Italian fantasy . Or rather: Norwegian by adoption, Sardinian at heart.
Behind the pseudonym Anna D'Alberto, Rossana has signed the Tzjane trilogy, a fantasy saga for adults that began in 2022 with The Towers of Cnus, continued with The Sound of Teir and recently concluded with The Pied Piper of Kennegalt. A story that crosses parallel worlds, feeds on music and magic, and has its roots - not too incognito - in medieval Sardinia. "Cnus is not just an imaginary kingdom," she says, "it is a tribute to my Island: to the landscapes, the cuisine, the legends. It is a hub of the multiverse, just as Sardinia is the heart of my inner worlds."
But Rossana is not someone who improvised as a writer. "I've always written, but I left everything in the drawer for years. Only after moving to Oslo in 2013, I had the courage to reread and have my texts read. And there, something changed."
In Norway, where he works as a project manager, the routine is less overwhelming, the salaries are higher, the bureaucracy is leaner. "It's not just a question of money. Here I feel I have space. Even creatively."
The first book published is a dark humor titled “Se muore il becchino” (If the gravedigger dies) , inspired by his experience as a municipal technician, a role he also played in the Municipality of Quartucciu. But the germ of Tzjane was already born in 1992: at the beginning it was supposed to be a comic. Then it became a novel, without ever losing its visual, narrative and musical DNA. Not by chance, his first publication ever was the post-apocalyptic manga Il popolo di Urce (The People of Urce), which appeared in the self-produced magazine Taboo in 2010.
His voice tells impossible worlds starting from what he knows best: science, art, material culture, identity. Balancing between engineering and imagination, he builds bridges between what is and what could be.
