Susanna Tamaro was born in Trieste in 1957 and is the author of eight adult book, including Follow Your Heart and Listen to My Voice, and four children's books. She established the Tamaro Foundation, dedicated to humanitarian causes, with the royalties from her literary work. Susanna Tamaro lives in Umbria.
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