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Donna Leon (Nova Jersey, EUA, 1942). is an American of Irish/Spanish descent, author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti. She first went to Italy in 1965 and returned regularly over the next decade or so while pursuing a career as an academic in the U.S. and then later in Iran, China, and finally Saudi Arabia. She finally decided to move to Venice, where she has now lived for over twenty years. Donna Leon was until recently the crime reviewer for the Sunday Times and is an opera expert. She has written the libretto for a comic opera and has set up her own opera company, Il Complesso Barocco. Her crime novels are all set in or near Venice. They are written in English and have been translated into 20 languages, but (under her request) not Italian. She says this is to save her from local celebrity.