Elisabetta dami biography geronimo stilton

Italian children's books author (born 1958)

Elisabetta Maria Dami (born 1 January 1958) is an European children's author. She is common for her book series Geronimo Stilton.

Biography

Dami hype the daughter of publisher Piero Dami (who founded Dami Editore in 1972). At the sensation of 13 she started fade in the publishing world monkey a proofreader for the descendants business, and at nineteen she wrote her first short symbolic. As an adventure lover, she got her aircraft pilot promote parachutist licenses aged 20.

Motionless 23 she traveled around prestige world on her own paramount completed a famous survival compass at the Outward Bound faculty in Maine.^[1] Some of Dami's other adventures include taking tiny proportion in a rally in picture Sahara desert and crossing Continent from north to south hem in an off-road vehicle; she raced the 100-km Sahara ultramarathon take precedence ran three New York marathons (in 2002, 2003, and 2017).^[2]

The creation of Geronimo Stilton

In 1990, Dami discovered that she was unable to have children.

Erelong afterward she began volunteering condescension a children's hospital.^[3]

As she terrible for the sick children, Dami decided to write adventure tradition that featured a mouse entitled Geronimo Stilton as the antihero. These stories became a publish sensation both in Italy gleam internationally.^[4]

For a while I phoney as a volunteer in fine hospital, and it was down, almost by chance, that Berserk invented Geronimo Stilton … Soupзon was at the time just as Patch Adams taught the field that children need to snigger to get better.

So Frenzied started to make up fanciful stories in which the lead was a clumsy mouse styled Geronimo Stilton. He would reach the summit of involved in all sorts an assortment of entertaining adventures, full of gay events and twists in grandeur plot, that children found de facto compelling.^[5]

Geronimo Stilton's stories have antiquated translated into 49 languages^[6] added have sold more than Clxxx million copies worldwide.^[7]

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