![]() ![]() In 1989, her novel La testa fra le nuvole ( Head in Clouds) was published by Marsilio. Her first novel Illmitz was completed in 1981 but rejected by all the publishing houses she approached. In 1978, she started writing her first short stories. ![]() She worked as a writer and editor in the television industry for several years. She received a scholarship to study at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, an Italian school of cinema, where she obtained a diploma in direction in 1977 and began working with director Salvatore Samperi. But then she read about Asperger's syndrome and received her diagnosis. She also described herself as a "strange child", and being treated by neurologists and taking medications. After her parents separated, she was raised by her maternal grandmother. Her parents separated, and she has described her father as an alcoholic and her mother as "cold and cruel". The mother's family was Jewish she is also a distant relative of the Italian writer Italo Svevo. Susanna Tamaro was born and raised in Trieste in 1958. Her novel Va' dove ti porta il cuore ( Follow your Heart) was a bestseller, translated into 44 languages, and received the 1994 Premio Donna Citta di Roma. She is an author of novels, stories, magazine articles, and children's literature. Susanna Tamaro ( Italian pronunciation: born 12 December 1957) is an Italian novelist and film director. ![]()
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