About Nicky Pellegrino
Born 1964. Nicky Pellegrino is a New Zealand writer and editor.
Nicky Pellegrino (born 1964) is a novelist. She is an English-born New Zealander of Italian descent and lives and writes in Auckland, New Zealand. Her novels have been translated into 12 languages. The family spent summer holidays with her father's siblings in southern Italy, experiences which later became the inspiration for some of her books. Pellegrino writes articles for the New Zealand Listener, Next Magazine, NZ Gardener and Food Magazine, and has a regular book column in the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly. Pellegrino was moved to begin on a long-held dream of writing a novel, and wrote Delicious while co-writing D'Audney's autobiography.
Delicious (2005), Orion Books
Recipe for Life (2010), Orion Books
A Dream Of Italy (2019), Orion Books
Tiny Pieces of Us (2020), Hachette New Zealand
To Italy, with Love (2021), Orion Books
P.S. Come to Italy (2023), Orion Books
Marry Me in Italy (2024), Orion Books
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Nicky Pellegrino was born in 1964 in Liverpool.
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Nicky Pellegrino is New Zealand.
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