As he wrote in one of his Italian novels (Il fantasma di Andersen): "The most striking episode of my childhood was when the ghost of a tall, slouching boy with a big nose appeared to me: Hans Christian Andersen." Born in Fano, Italy, but living in Venice, Lucio Angelini is a translator of novels and essays for major Italian publishers (Einaudi, Mondadori, Frassinelli, Fazi, and others) and a writer. He translated into Italian Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe, Gandhi, Einstein, Tobias Wolff, Lewis Carroll and others, including Patricia Cornwell's Body of Evidence (Oggetti di reato, Mondadori). He also translated into Italian three novels by Hans Christian Andersen: Only a Fiddler, O.T. - A Danish Novel, The Two Baronesses. As a writer, he has written mainly short stories for children and young adults. His collection You, Naughty Mum! (And Other Tales)(Quella bruttacattiva della mamma!, Emme Edizioni) was translated into French with the title Méchante Maman (Flammarion). In 2013, he published i
