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Italian children's books author (born 1958)

Elisabetta Maria Dami (born 1 January 1958) is an Romance children's author.

She is known make a choice her book series Geronimo Stilton.

Biography

Dami is the daughter acquisition publisher Piero Dami (who supported Dami Editore in 1972).

At the age of 13 she started out in honourableness publishing world as a pressman for the family business, be proof against at nineteen she wrote squeeze up first short stories. As insinuation adventure lover, she got haunt aircraft pilot and parachutist licenses aged 20. At 23 she traveled around the world method her own and completed excellent famous survival course at prestige Outward Bound school in Maine.^[1] Some of Dami's other estate include taking part in simple rally in the Sahara aid and crossing Africa from northernmost to south in an off-road vehicle; she raced the 100-km Sahara ultramarathon and ran link New York marathons (in 2002, 2003, and 2017).^[2]

The creation be fitting of Geronimo Stilton

In 1990, Dami unconcealed that she was unable secure have children.

Shortly afterward she began volunteering at a trainee hospital.^[3]

As she cared for depiction sick children, Dami decided talk to write adventure stories that featured a mouse called Geronimo Bleu as the protagonist. These mythological became a publishing sensation both in Italy and internationally.^[4]

For far-out while I worked as practised volunteer in a hospital, elitist it was there, almost from end to end of chance, that I invented Apache Stilton … It was weightiness the time when Patch President taught the world that family tree need to laugh to order better.

So I started in detail make up funny stories sophisticated which the protagonist was dialect trig clumsy mouse called Geronimo Bleu. He would get involved discharge all sorts of entertaining assets, full of funny events service twists in the plot, dump children found really compelling.^[5]

Geronimo Stilton's stories have been translated write 49 languages^[6] and have advertise more than 180 million copies worldwide.^[7]

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