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Paola Calvetti was born in Milan, Italy. She was educated at Liceo Linguistico A. Manzoni (Languages School) and graduated in DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) at Bologna’s University.

After leaving school she wrote her first book Lo spazio fantastico (Emme Edizioni) dedicated to dance and mime for children.Calvetti is married. She has two children, a boy and a girl.
After graduation, she started her career as a journalist for the daily newspaper la Repubblica, contributing articles about dance and music.
Meantime she wrote five portraits for Rai 2, the second State Channel dedicated to great dance artists:
Jazz City, Alvin Ailey’s New York; La ville lumière, Roland Petit’s Paris; Water Cities, Carolyn Carlson’s Helsinki and Venice; Madrid, Paola Calvetti was born in Milan, Italy. She was educated at Liceo Linguistico A. Manzoni (Languages School) and graduated in DAMS (Drama, Art and Music Studies) at Bologna’s University.

After leaving school she wrote her first book Lo spazio fantastico (Emme Edizioni) dedicated to dance and mime for children.Calvetti is married. She has two children, a boy and a girl.
After graduation, she started her career as a journalist for the daily newspaper la Repubblica, contributing articles about dance and music.
Meantime she wrote five portraits for Rai 2, the second State Channel dedicated to great dance artists:
Jazz City, Alvin Ailey’s New York; La ville lumière, Roland Petit’s Paris; Water Cities, Carolyn Carlson’s Helsinki and Venice; Madrid, starring Antonio Gades and his dance ballet company, The enchanted Moon, starring Alessandra Ferri. This tv film won the first Price (Award) at the FIPA in Cannes in 1992.
In 1990, she wrote the film for Rai 2 Il ritorno, dedicated to Italian dancers dancing abroad.

In 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992 she created and directed Danza&Video, film and video Festival in Milano.
She arranged and directed the series “La danza” (De Agostini), composed of 20 video-portraits of the most important dancers and coreographers of the XX century.
She wrote essays on music and dance for the Teatro alla Scala (the milanese Opera House).
From 1993 to 1997, after leaving journalism, she became chief of the press office at La Scala.
In 1996 she was the curator of the exibition and the essay Riccardo Muti alla Scala (Leonardo Editore).

In 1999 she published her first novel L’Amore segreto (Baldini&Castoldi) based on a secret love story revealed by an old lady to her lover’s daughter 40 years later. In 2000 the novel was finalist at the literary Award Bancarella and it was translated in Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Japanese.
In 2010 it was translated in Frech (L’amour secret, Presses de la cité), Rumanian, and Germany.

Her second novel, L’addio (Bompiani), again set in the world of classic music, is the story of three women and their lifetime friendship. Olga, the main character, wants to be a costumes and set designer and her dreams come true when she works as assistents for the famous editino of La Traviata directed by Luchino Visconti in 1955. The novel was translated in Portuguese (O Adeus, Rocco…)

Calvetti’s third novel Né con te né senza di te was released in 2004 and was inspired by Truffauts’s masterpiece The woman next door: the omicide-suicide of two lovers narated by their best friend.

In 2006 she published Perché tu mi hai sorriso (Bompiani), a sort of psychological duel between an old mother and her daughter, imprisoned in a mysterious an passionate relationship.
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	P.O. Box Love: A Novel of Letters by Paola Calvetti (Goodreads Author), Anne Milano Appel (Translator) 3.30 avg rating — 401 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia: Ovvero la lista dei sogni possibili 2.93 avg rating — 312 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elisabetta II: Ritratto di Regina 3.92 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gli innocenti 3.45 avg rating — 51 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'amore segreto 2.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le rivali. Dieci donne di talento che hanno cambiato la storia 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perché tu mi hai sorriso 2.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Il segreto del cigno: La rivoluzione silenziosa della principessa di Galles 3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parlo d'amor con me 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'addio: romanzo in due atti e un epilogo 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“E non ditemi che tanto non cambia niente, perché c'è sempre qualcuno che cambia il mondo a nostra insaputa e anche voi, se solo voleste, potreste farlo.”
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“«L'infelicità» sussurrava la nonna come a svelarmi uno dei suoi segreti «è non avere abbastanza desideri.»”
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“Scrivendo mi innamoro delle parole e mi convinco di tutto.”
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“P.O. Box Love is a wonderfully engrossing and romantic novel that takes the reader from Milan to New York and back again through the letters Federico and Emma mail to each other. Paola Calvetti’s book will captivate your mind and steal your heart.”

Isabella Rossellini”
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“If you have ever been tempted to look up an old girlfriend or boyfriend, you will sympathize with Frederico. If you have doubts about revealing yourself to someone from your past, you’ll understand Emma. Did you ever have the urge to open a bookstore? You’ll love Dreams & Desires, Emma’s bookstore in Milan that specializes in romance.”
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“Paola Calvetti takes readers on a delicious trip through Italy, books, letters and love, reminding us all of the joys of a completely compelling read."
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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