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81 years old
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Libra
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Donna Leon
Donna Leon is the American author of a series of detective novels set in Venice, Italy, about the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. In 2003, she received the Corine Literature Prize. Leon has lived in Venice for over 30 years and now resides in the small village of Val Müstair in the Graubünden mountains in Switzerland. She also has a house in Zurich. In 2020, she becomes a Swiss citizen. She was a lecturer in English literature for Maryland University College - Europe in Italy and taught English from 1981 to 1990 at a US military base in Italy. She stopped teaching and concentrated on composition and other cultural activities in the field of music. His novels by Commissario Brunetti all take place in or around Venice. They are written in English and have been translated into many foreign languages, but - at Leon's request - not into Italian. Brunetti's ninth novel, Friends of the High, won the Crime Writers Association's Silver Dagger in 2000 .
BornSeptember 28, 1942, Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican, Swiss (since 2020)
Period1992–present
GenreCrime fiction
Notable worksDeath at La Fenice

About Donna Leon

Novelist Donna Leon was born in New Jersey, United States on September 29, 1942. She's 81 years old today.

Author of mystery novels and university lecturer who was born in the United States. Her Guido Brunetti series of detective books made her renowned.

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Donna Leon before becoming famous

Donna Leon was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1942 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Horse (馬).

Death in La Fenice, her first Brunetti novel, was released in 1992.

Achievement of Donna Leon

Despite their Venice locations, she insisted that none of her Brunetti novels be translated into Italian.

Donna Leon's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She taught literature in Italy at the University of Maryland's European campus after leaving her native America.

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She and Novelist Sara Paretsky, a fellow crime fiction novelist, were both awarded the Silver Dagger Award by the Crime Writers' Association.

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Donna Leon Income & Net worth

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