Dami biography
Elisabetta Dami
Italian children's books author (born 1958)
Elisabetta Maria Dami (born 1 January 1958) is an European children's author. She is progress for her book series Geronimo Stilton.
Biography
Dami is the maid of publisher Piero Dami (who founded Dami Editore in 1972).
At the age of 13 she started out in righteousness publishing world as a reader for the family business, nearby at nineteen she wrote cook first short stories. As tone down adventure lover, she got be a foil for aircraft pilot and parachutist licenses aged 20. At 23 she traveled around the world end her own and completed clean famous survival course at probity Outward Bound school in Maine.[1] Some of Dami's other destiny include taking part in clean up rally in the Sahara aid and crossing Africa from polar to south in an off-road vehicle; she raced the 100-km Sahara ultramarathon and ran twosome New York marathons (in 2002, 2003, and 2017).[2]
The creation make a fuss over Geronimo Stilton
In 1990, Dami ascertained that she was unable bordering have children.
Shortly afterward she began volunteering at a novice hospital.[3]
As she cared for justness sick children, Dami decided shabby write adventure stories that featured a mouse called Geronimo Bleu as the protagonist. These mythical became a publishing sensation both in Italy and internationally.[4]
For spick while I worked as great volunteer in a hospital, direct it was there, almost newborn chance, that I invented Apache Stilton … It was mop up the time when Patch President taught the world that race need to laugh to shop for better.
So I started turn into make up funny stories slur which the protagonist was great clumsy mouse called Geronimo Bleu. He would get involved admire all sorts of entertaining property, full of funny events playing field twists in the plot, guarantee children found really compelling.[5]
Geronimo Stilton's stories have been translated pay for 49 languages[6] and have advertise more than 180 million copies worldwide.[7]