Silvana De Mari

Silvana De Mari at Lucca Comics & Games 2016

Silvana De Mari is an Italian doctor and children's writer known in the English-speaking world for The Last Dragon, an award-winning fantasy novel published in English in 2006. As of 2014 it remains the only one of her many books to be translated into English.[1]

Silvana De Mari was born in 1953 in Caserta, Italy. She lives in Turin with her family. She is a writer, psychotherapist, and doctor. She formerly worked as a surgeon in both Italy and Ethiopia, before setting up a private psychotherapy practice in Turin. [2]

L'ultimo Elfo (The Last Elf, also published as The Last Dragon) was her third children's book and the first to be translated into English. It has also been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and several other languages.[3] Both L'ultimo Elfo and its sequel L'ultimo Orco (The Last Ogre) received multiple awards, but the author considers her most important book to be Il Gatto dagli Occhi d'Oro (The Golden-Eyed Cat), published in Italy in 2009.[3]

Controversies

As of early 2017 De Mari is facing disciplinary action from the Italian Medical Association for her offensively expressed views against homosexuality and anal intercourse, which are said not to be based on facts or scientific evidence. The disciplinary panel is in the process of evaluating whether De Mari's actions will result in her medical licence being revoked.[4]

In the context of criticism of the APA, she referred obliquely to gay bowel syndrome, a controversial term, and denied that homosexuality exists, saying, "C'è una sola sessualità e persone biologicamente perdenti che la rifiutano" (There is only one sexuality and persons being biologically losers who refuse it).[5]

With regard to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders she also said:

The APA, American Psychiatric Association, rules the world using a statistical diagnostic manual without which you can not make an official diagnosis or expertise. The DSM (Diagnostic Statistical Manual) costs lots of money and has the same ethical and scientific value that had the various posters on race.[6]

In 2013, De Mari wrote an open letter to Pope Francis, urging him to defend persecuted Christians rather than pursue popularity. [7]

Silvana De Mari is currently (March 2017) involved in a criminal trial and two civil lawsuits. She has been charged with aggravated defamation by the Italian district court of Turin and is facing prosecution for her disparaging comments about homosexuality, which she allegedly linked to satanism. Under Italian law publishing such statements to target a minority is considered a hate crime and a civil rights violation. She is also the defendant in two other lawsuits brought against her by the Human Rights Committee of Piedmont and the City of Turin. All lawsuits allege De Mari is actively targeting the LGBTQ minority with hate speech. She is known to have said that homosexuality is a disease and that "homosexuals are the new Aryan race".[8]

References

  1. ↑ Silvana De Mari at Goodreads
  2. ↑ "Silvana De Mari." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center. 9 Nov. 2010.
  3. 1 2 Author's website - Libri
  4. ↑ "La dottoressa difende l’omofobia? L’Ordine apre un provvedimento disciplinare". Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  5. ↑ "> APA e etica". silvanademari.iobloggo.com. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  6. ↑ "> Concetto di malattia". silvanademari.iobloggo.com. Retrieved 2016-12-19.
  7. ↑ "Lettera a Papa Francesco". Magdi Cristiano Allam. August 14, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2017. (Italian). Translation: Passionate Open Letter to Papa Francesco from an Italian
  8. ↑ "Finisce sotto indagine la «dottoressa anti gay»". Retrieved 2017-03-15.


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