Dora Melegari

Dora Melegari (27 June 1849 – 31 July 1924) was a Swiss writer who wrote in both French and Italian. Three of her early works were written by a ghost writer. In time she was twice nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Life Dorette (nickname, "Dora") Melegari was born in Lausanne, 27 June 1849. Her father was the diplomat Luigi Amedeo Melegari and her mother was Marie Caroline Mandrot. Melegari then wrote her own novels, Her ghost writer eventually published books under his own name.

In 1887, she started writing for the Internationale Revue using the nom de plume of Thomas Emery. Melegari was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1914 and 1923.

She died in Rome 31 July 1924.

Works Dans la vieille rue, Ollendorff, Paris, 1880 (ghost written) Expiation, Levy, Paris, 1881 Les incertitudes de Livie, Ollendorff, Paris, 1881 Journal intime de Benjamin Costant et lettres a sa famille et ses amis, Ollendorff, Paris, 1886 Marthe de Thiennes, Levy, Paris, 1886 La duchesse Ghislamé, Paris, 1895 Kirie Eleison, Paris, 1896 Il sonno delle anime, Milan, 1903 La Giovane Italia e la Giovane Europa. Carteggio inedito tra Giuseppe Mazzini e Luigi Amedeo Melegari, 1906 Chercheurs de sources, Fischbacher, Paris, 1908 Caterina Spadaro, Milan, 1908 In cerca di sorgenti, Milan, 1910 La città del giglio, Milan, 1911 La piccola damigella Cristine, Milan, 1913 Artefici di pene e artefici di gioie, Trier, Milan, 1913 Ames et visages des femmes, Paris, 1913 Les Victorieuses, Paris, 1913 Amici e nemici, Milan, 1914 Il destarsi delle anime, Milan, 1915 La resurrezione di Lazzaro, Rome, 1915