Geburtsdatum | Montag, 28. September 1942 |
Geburtsort | Montclair, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Beschreibung | Donna Leon (/ˈliːɒn/; geboren in Montclair, New Jersey) ist die amerikanische Autorin einer Reihe von Kriminalromanen, die in Venedig, Italien, spielen und in denen der fiktive Held Commissario Guido Brunetti eine Hauptrolle spielt. Im Jahr 2003 wurde sie mit dem Corine-Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet. |
I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.
