Donna Leon
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September 29, 1942 Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1992–present |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
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Donna Leon (/ˈdɒnə ˈliːɒn/; born September 29, 1942, in Montclair, New Jersey) is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice, Italy and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti.
Leon lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in a small village in Switzerland. She was a lecturer in English literature for the University of Maryland University College – Europe (UMUC-Europe) in Italy and then worked as a professor from 1981 to 1999 at the American military base of Vicenza, Italy. She stopped teaching and concentrated on writing and other cultural activities in the field of music (especially baroque music).
Leon's Commissario Brunetti novels are all situated in or around Venice. They are written in English and translated into many foreign languages, but not into Italian, at Leon's request. The ninth Brunetti novel, Friends in High Places, won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger in 2000. German television has produced 22 Commissario Brunetti episodes for broadcast.
The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice. Each case is an opportunity for the author to reveal another aspect of the seamy underside of society and another facet of Venetian life. Brunetti reports to the vain and self-serving buffoon, Vice-Questore Patta, while Sergente (later Ispettore and with the inspector per tu) Vianello and the all-knowing and well-connected Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary, assist Brunetti on the ground and through research.
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