Silvana Gandolfi

Silvana Gandolfi (* 1940 in Rome ) is an Italian author for children and young people .

life and work

Gandolfi grew up in Rome. She works as an author, journalist and radio play author . Her first book was published in Italy in 1992, her latest book is called In der Feuerlinie (2012). In addition to German, her books have also been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, English, Japanese, Catalan, Chinese and Hungarian. Six of her books have been published in German: The Cat on the Track (1998), The Dragon Paste (1999), The Island of Lost Time (2000), The Secret of the Sunken Pyramid (2001), The Turtle That Shakespeare Loved (2003 ) and In the Firing Line (2012).

Awards

• 1994: Premio Cento for the dragon paste
• 1996: Premio Andersen as best female author of the year and the Premio Cento for The Cat on the Track

Works

• On the trail of the cat: Roman / Silvana Gandolfi . Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim, 1998, ISBN 3-407-78315-9
• The dragon paste . Elefanten Press, Berlin, 1999, ISBN 3-88520-741-9
• The island of lost time . Bertelsmann, Munich, 2000, ISBN 3-570-14597-2
• The secret of the sunken pyramid . Bertelsmann, Munich, 2001, ISBN 3-570-14615-4
• The turtle Shakespeare loved . Omnibus, Munich, 2003, ISBN 3-570-12762-1
• In the line of fire . Carlsen, Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-551-58272-0

Reviews

In the line of fire

“At first glance, the boys Santino and Lucio don't seem to have anything in common - and yet they share the same fate: Both are victims of the Italian mafia. One lives in Livorno, the other in Palermo. The author Silvana Gandolfi interweaves the story of the two boys. Santino, six years old, witnesses a double murder; The son of a mafia boss shoots his grandpa. Then the murderer tries to kill the child too. Santino survived. When he reveals the name of the perpetrator, his family has to flee. Santino joins a witness protection program, gets a new name, a new identity. The stories of Santino and Lucio slowly overlap - it's mysterious, exciting and incredibly cleverly told. "

- HAF : Interwoven - Great Power and Brute Force: A Mafia Novel in Die Zeit from November 15, 2012, p. 51

Web links

• Silvana Gandolfi at Carlsen Verlag