Donna Leon
Autor/a de Mort a La Fenice
Sobre l'autor
Donna Leon was born on September 29, 1942 in Montclair, New Jersey. She taught English literature in England, Switzerland, Iran, China, Italy and Saudi Arabia. She is the author of a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery series. Friends in High Places, a novel from the series, won the Crime Writers mostra'n més Association Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction in 2000. German Television has produced 16 Commissario Brunetti mysteries for broadcast. She was a crime reviewer for the Sunday Times. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her titles Jewels of Pardise, The Golden Egg, By Its Cover, Falling in Love and The Waters of Eternal Youth made The New York Times Bestseller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo credit: Mariusz Kubik, Warsaw, Sept. 27, 2005
Sèrie
Obres de Donna Leon
Dressed for Death | A Venetian Reckoning | Quietly in Their Sleep | A Noble Radiance (1996) 7 exemplars
Lasset die Kinder zu mir kommen, Sanft entschlafen,in Sachen Signora Brunetti,Venezianisvche Scherade,venezianisches… (2003) 6 exemplars
SOS Title Unknown 3 exemplars
[No title] 3 exemplars
Death at La Fenice and Friends in High Places [video] — Original novel — 3 exemplars
Death in a Strange Country & Dressed for Death ( the Anonymous Venetian): a Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (1994) 2 exemplars
Donna Leon's Inspector Guido Brunetti Series 2 exemplars
Una Historia Propia 1 exemplars
Bei den Brunettis zu Gast: Rezepte von Roberta Pianaro und kulinarische Geschichten von Donna Leon by Donna… 1 exemplars
En el nombre del hijo 1 exemplars
Smrt u stranoj zemlji 1 exemplars
Acqua alta 1 exemplars
Esclaus del desig 1 exemplars
18 titres 1 exemplars
Hyvän nimissä 1 exemplars
Donna Leon : entrevista 1 exemplars
Piedras ensangrentadas 1 exemplars
Obres associades
La Maga Abbandonata [sound recording] — Autor — 3 exemplars
Quietly in Their Sleep and Acqua Alta [video] — Original novel — 3 exemplars
Death in a Strange Country and A Sea of Troubles [video] — Original novel — 2 exemplars
Doctored Evidence and Uniform Justice [video] — Original novel — 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1942
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Montclair, New Jersey, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Venècia, Véneto, Itàlia
- Professions
- professor (Literature)
novelist - Agent
- Diogenes Verlag, Zürich
- Biografia breu
- Donna Leon has lived in Venice for about 30 years. She was a lecturer in English Literature for the University of Maryland University College-Europe in Italy, and then a professor at the American military base of Vicenza. She stopped teaching to concentrate on writing and other cultural activities, especially Baroque music.
Membres
Converses
La Serenissima & Dordogne Mystery Read Along a 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (gener 2022)
La Serenissima & Dordogne Mystery Read Along a 75 Books Challenge for 2020 (gener 2021)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Donna Leon (23)
Favorite Series (1)
Europe (1)
Spirit of Place (2)
Books Read in 2021 (11)
Opera in fiction (4)
Books Read in 2020 (11)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 80
- També de
- 19
- Membres
- 40,811
- Popularitat
- #431
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 1,484
- ISBN
- 1,765
- Llengües
- 25
- Preferit
- 94
A l’agost Elisabetta Foscarini, una dona que Brunetti feia anys que no veia, s’acosta al comissari per demanar-li un favor. La mare d’Elisabetta va ser molt generosa amb la seva família, així que Brunetti es veu obligat a investigar l’assumpte en privat i no com un cas oficial de la policia. El gendre d’Elisabetta, que és comptable, ha confessat a la seva dona que està involucrat en un cosa fosca i l’ha alertat que podria córrer perill.… (més)