Simonetta Agnello Hornby is an Italian novelist and food writer.[1][2] Her novels are international bestsellers, translated in more than twenty languages.[3]
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, Simonetta Agnello 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.
^"Aperitivo d'Autore, Simonetta Agnello Hornby a Crispiano - Corriere di Taranto". Corriere di Taranto (in Italian). 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
^Vetta, Sylvia (9 March 2009). "The Pagoda of Dreams". The Oxford Times.
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