Magdalen nabb biography of michael

Michael Dibdin, also born in the U.K. and raised in Ireland, curiously, was born in the same year as Magdalen Nabb, and died the same year she did as well.

Michael Dibdin died in March of this year, while Magdalen Nabb's obituaries have just recently appeared.

Magdalen Nabb, an expatriate English author whose sensitively wrought crime novels, set in her adopted city, Florence, won her the admiration and friendship of.

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(Born 16 January, 1947 in Lancashire. Died 18 August, 2007 in Florence.)

Magdalen Nabb settled in Florence in her
20s after moving from England
Magdalen Nabb is the acclaimed author of the Marshal Guarnaccia detective novels, set in her adopted home city of Florence. There were 14 titles in the series, beginning with Death of an Englishman in 1981 and concluding with Vita Nuova in 2008. There would have undoubtedly been more had she not died from a stroke at the age of 60.

Nabb, born in the village of Church in Lancashire, a mile to the west of Accrington, had a turbulent life. She lost both her parents by the age of 13 and she and her sister were brought up by an aunt in Ramsbottom, attending Bury Convent Grammar School. She made the bold decision to move to Italy with her young son, Liam, in 1975 at the age of 28, following the breakdown of her marriage.

They settled in Florence, where she had visited on holiday. At first she worked as a potter in Montelupo, a town on the banks of the River Arno a few kilometres west of Florence, using skills she had acquired at art school in Manchester. Later, she became curator of the museum at Casa Guidi, the house near the Pitti Palace where Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning once lived.

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Magdalen Nabb, 60; her panel of lawlessness novels featured Italian detective

Magdalen Nabb, 60, a Nation author who wrote felony novels wonder a original Italian policeman, died insensible a rope Saturday alter Florence, Italia, where she had temporary and worked since 1975, said Philosopher Verlag Flap, her Country publisher.

Nabb’s greatest popular novels featured picture Sicilian-born policemen detective Lawman Salvatore Guarnaccia, who was described get ahead of Publishers Daily as “an unusual antihero for a crime novel: He’s neither a Bond-like sophisticate faint a on the road to recovery loser.”

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Nabb also promulgated 13 books for descendants and verdant adults, including “The Delighted Horse.”

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Magdalen Nabb

MAGDALEN NABB was born in Lancashire in 1947 and trained as a potter. In 1975 she abandoned pottery, sold her home and her car, and came to Florence with her son, knowing nobody and speaking no Italian. She has lived there ever since, and pursues a dual career as crime writer and children's author.

She has written fourteen crime novels featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri, all set in Florence, which she describes as 'a very secret city. Walk down any residential street and you have no idea what is going on behind those blank walls. It's a problem the Marshal comes up against all the time.'

Magdalen Nabb also writes the immensely successful Josie Smith books, set in her native Lancashire, which form the basis of the Granada children's TV series, Josie Smith, scripted by the author. Her first book, Josie Smith, was runner-up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award in 1989, and in l99l, Josie Smith and Eileen was winner of the prestigious Smarties Book Prize for the 6-8 age group.

Genres: Mystery