Simonetta Agnello Hornby

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Simonetta Agnello Hornby (2012)

Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer. [1] [2] Her novels are international bestsellers, translated into more than twenty languages. [3]

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Biography

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 a community legal aid firm specialized in domestic violence that she co-founded 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. [4] [5]

Her debut novel La Mennulara (The Almond Picker) was published in Italy in 2002 by Feltrinelli, and was awarded the Forte Village Literary Prize, The Stresa Prize for Fiction, and the "Alassio 100 Libri - An Author for Europe" Prize in 2003. [6] Translated into more than ten languages, it became an international bestseller. [7]

In the following decade, Hornby wrote six more novels: La zia Marchesa (The Marchesa), Boccamurata, Vento Scomposto, La Monaca (The Nun, winner of the Italian Pen Prize), and Il veleno dell'Oleandro. She has also published memoirs (Via XX settembre, La mia Londra), a collection of short stories (Il male che si deve raccontare), books of recipes and etiquette Un filo d'olio, La cucina del buon gusto). Her last book, Il pranzo di Mosè, was published in Italy in 2014. [8] She lives in London.

She was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy in the rank of Grand Officer by the President of Italy on 2 June 2016. [9]

She married Martin Hornby. They have two sons, George and Nicholas. [10]

Works

Translated into English

In Italian

References

  1. "Simonetta Agnello Hornby" at Europa Editions.
  2. Interview Archived 2013-08-12 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Biography Archived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Andrew and Suzanne Edwards, "Interview with Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Author of La Monaca", 12 November 2012.
  5. Biography Archived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Premi Letterari" [Literary Prizes]. alassio.eu (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  7. La mia Londra Archived 2016-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "Agnello Hornby, Simonetta", Treccani Encyclopedia.
  9. "Aperitivo d'Autore, Simonetta Agnello Hornby a Crispiano - Corriere di Taranto". Corriere di Taranto (in Italian). 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  10. Vetta, Sylvia (9 March 2009). "The Pagoda of Dreams". The Oxford Times.
  11. Sulla festa della Vara ambientata a Messina nel 1839 descritta nel romanzo si veda S. Di Giacomo, L'ebbrezza di una festa unica in ogni epoca, in "Gazzetta del Sud", Messina, del 13 agosto 2013
  12. Con un programma che ha coinvolto le donne potenzialmente esposte a violenza e le aziende in cui lavorano, la Global Foundation for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Edv) ha contribuito a contenere il fenomeno della violenza domestica in Inghilterra. Questo libro ha lo specifico obiettivo di creare un'Edv italiana per applicarne il metodo anche in Italia.