Grit Landau, born in 1973, writes novels, short stories and non-fiction books (the latter under her real name). Prior to becoming an author, she studied history and worked as a music and culture journalist. The passion for Italy is in the author’s blood: her father, an opera director and Puccini expert, worked several times at the Scala in Milan and in 1960, her mother aged 20 fell from a collapsing hotel balcony near Sanremo, which was practically the big bang moment for the author’s life-long love of Bella Italia. The author is married and lives with her family close to Bonn.
