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Milena Debenedetti

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Milena Debenedetti (1957- ) is a Italian chemist. Born in the region of Liguria, she holds a degree in Chemistry, and worked for almost two decades in a multinational corporation, developing new products and patents. Of her work she says, “Quoting Roy Batty, I might say: I saw things that you humans…... Splits, fusions, acquisitions, business transfers, spin-off, management buy-out, finance holdings. Nothing was spared to me of triumphal liberism”. Later she has been a Union spokeperson, a position which she left “hoping to devote my energies to something else”. She published a number of short stories on anthologies by Keltia editions, in «Delos», on various on-line and off-line fanzines, and in the two anthologies Mondi di Delos 1& 2. In 1996 she won the fantasy section of the Premio Courmayeur, in 1999 she won the Premio Cristalli Sognanti. She was often a runner-up and a special selection author for the Lovecraft Award and the Alien Award.