The following book (The Last Ogre) won the IBBY International Boud Books Young People 2006 prize and the Prix Sorcières "Les prix en littérature jeunesse" in 2009 in France. It has also been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and several other languages for a total of 23 Countries (Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Finland, France, Germany Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA). L'ultimo Elfo ( The Last Elf, published in the US as The Last Dragon) was her third children's book and the first to be translated into English. She formerly worked as a surgeon in both Italy and Ethiopia, before setting up a private psychotherapy practice in Turin. In Italy, she is better known for her homophobic, racist, anti-scientific, no-vax and sexist positions.ĭe Mari was born in 1953 in Santa Maria Capua Vetere ( Caserta, Italy). In France, it won the Prix Imaginales in 2005. The book won the Italian prizes Premio Bancarellino and Premio Andersen. She's also known as the author of L'ultimo Elfo (2004), an award-winning fantasy novel published in English and 18 other languages (UK The Last Elf, US The Last Dragon). Silvana De Mari (born 5 July 1953) is an Italian writer of children's fiction, conspiracy theorist and former medic and psychotherapist, now suspended due to her support to various theses contrary to any consolidated scientific position.
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