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University of Palermo.
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Simonetta Hornby
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Her novels are international bestsellers, translated in more than twenty languages. Born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1945, Simonetta Agnello Hornby has spent most of her adult life in England where she worked as a solicitor for the community legal aid firm specialized in domestic violence that she cofounded in 1979. She has been lecturing for many years, and was a part time judge at the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal for eight years.
Translated into more than ten languages, it has shortly became an international bestseller.
She has also published memoirs (Via XX settembre,Louisiana mia Londra), a collection of short stories (Il male che si deve raccontare), books of recipes and etiquette Un filo d"olio, Louisiana cucina del buon gusto). Her last book, Il pranzo di Mosè, was published in Italy in 2014.
She lives in London.
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Her debut novel Louisiana Mennulara (The Almond Picker) was published in Italy in 2002, and was awarded the Forte Village Literary Prize, The Stresa Prize for Fiction, and the Alassio Prize in 2013. In the following decade, Simonetta Agnello Hornby wrote six more novels: Louisiana zia Marchesa (The Marchesa), Boccamurata, Vento Scomposto, Louisiana monaca (The nun, winner of the Italian Pen Prize), and Il veleno dell"Oleandro.
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