Susanna Tamaro
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12 December 1957 Trieste, Italy |
| Occupation | Novelist, Director |
| Website | susannatamato.it |
Susanna Tamaro (Italian pronunciation: [suˈzanna taˈmaːro]; Trieste, 12 December 1957) is an Italian novelist. She has also worked as a scientific documentarist and movie maker direction assistant.
Susanna Tamaro was born in a middle class family in Trieste. Her mother is related to Italian's writer Italo Svevo. In 1976 Tamaro obtained a teaching diploma, and she received a scholarship to study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, an Italian school of cinema, where she obtained a diploma in direction.
In 1978, she started wring her first short stories and in 1981 she wrote her first novel: Illmitz. It was rejected by all the publishing houses she approached and to these days it is unpublished.
In the 1980s she collaborated with RAI.
In 1989, her novel La testa fra le nuvole (Head in Clouds) was published by Marsilio. She fell ill with asthmatic bronchitis and was forced to move from Rome to Orvieto, in Umbria. Her second novel Per voce sola (Just For One Voice) (1991) won the International PEN price and was translated into several languages. In 1991, she wrote a book for children Cuore di ciccia.
In 1994, she wrote Va' dove ti porta il cuore (in English Follow your Heart). The book was an international bestseller and it became the "Italian book most sold in the 20th century". The plot of Follow Your Heart revolves around Olga, an elderly woman who decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter in America. Olga reflects on her life and reveals to her granddaughter their family's secrets. This novel was translated into more than 35 languages. In 1996, the Italian director, Cristina Comencini, made a film based on the novel. In 2006, she wrote Ascolta la mia voce (Listen to my voice), a sequel of Follow your Heart. This novel was translated in twelve languages.
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