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[email protected] · www.otago.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/otago.agency Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otagoliteraryagency LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/otago-agency VERONICA GALLETTA WINNER OF PREMIO CAMPIELLO - DEBUT NOVEL 2020 WITH HER BOOK “LE ISOLE DI NORMAN” “An intense first novel to try and soothe an absence.” «Marie Claire» Born in 1971, Veronica Galletta worked as a mechanical engineer for many years. She is now focused exclusively on her writing. In 2015 her unpublished novel Le isole di Norman has been shortlisted at Italo Calvino Literary Award, the most renowned and reliable Italian prize for aspiring writers, which launched the careers of Marcello Fois and Paola Mastrocola, amongst others. The jury of Italo Calvino Award praised her «astonishing imagination and ability to craft a narrative setting with grandeur and impressively heart-breaking characters, shining a surreal and convincingly true-to-life light on their humanity. Every time slip, every ambiguous memory and dreamlike nuance in the story is essential to fully understand the eccentric universe in which Elena is living, a familiar surrounding that is also her mental and physical prison». In 2017, with a different and still unreleased novel, Veronica Galletta has been one of the finalists of the Neri Pozza Award. Finally published in April 2020 by Italo Svevo (an imprint by Gaffi Editore), less than two months later Le isole di Norman won with unanimous vote the Premio Campiello for Debut Novel, the most prestigious and important award in Italy for first novels and new authors.