Facts about elisabetta dami biography

Italian children's books author (born )

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

Facts about elisabetta dami biography

Biography

Dami is the daughter of publisher Piero Dami (who founded Dami Editore in ). At the age of 13 she started out in the publishing world as a proofreader for the family business, and at nineteen she wrote her first short stories.

As an adventure lover, she got her aircraft pilot and parachutist licenses aged At 23 she traveled around the world on her own and completed a famous survival course at the Outward Bound school in Maine.^[1] Some of Dami's other adventures include taking part in a rally in the Sahara desert and crossing Africa from north to south in an off-road vehicle; she raced the km Sahara ultramarathon and ran three New York marathons (in , , and ).^[2]

The creation of Geronimo Stilton

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

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