Simonetta Agnello Hornby

Simonetta Agnello Hornby is a British naturalised Italian author, lawyer and academic. She has lived in London since 1972, where she works as a lawyer and was president of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal for eight years. Her first novel, La mennulara (the ‘almond picker’) was a real literary case, topped the charts for a long time and was translated into many languages, receiving the Forte Village Literary Prize in 2003. In the same year, he won the Stresa Prize for Fiction and the Alassio 100 Books Prize - An Author for Europe, and was a finalist for the ‘Marisa Rusconi’ Thursday Prize. His most famous titles include: with Feltrinelli La zia marchesa (2004), Boccamurata (2007), Vento scomposto (2009), La monaca (2010), La cucina del buon gusto (with Maria Rosario Lazzati, 2012), Il veleno dell'oleandro (2013), Il male che si deve raccontare (with Marina Calloni, 2013), Via XX Settembre (2013), Caffè amaro (2016), Nessuno può volare (2017). He has also published Cuticchio (Mondadori, 2019), Piano nobile (Feltrinelli, 2020), Punto pieno (Feltrinelli, 2021) and Era un bravo ragazzo (Mondadori, 2023).