Licia Troisi

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Licia Troisi, whose legal first name is Felicia, was born November 25, 1980, in Rome, Italy, and grew up in Ostia, a coastal district of the city. She attended the Liceo Classico Kant in Rome before earning a physics degree with a specialization in astrophysics from the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata in 2004, focusing her thesis on dwarf galaxies, and later completed a PhD in astronomy in 2012. She has maintained an academic affiliation with Tor Vergata University alongside her writing career, and since 2018 has hosted "Terza Pagina," a cultural affairs program on Italian television channel RAI 5. Troisi is best known for her fantasy series set in the world of Mondo Emerso ("Emerged World"), comprising three interconnected trilogies published by Mondadori that established her as one of Italy's leading fantasy authors. She has also written the series La ragazza drago (The Dragon Girl), I regni di Nashira, Pandora, and La saga del Dominio, along with popular-science essays on astrophysics such as Dove va a finire il cielo and Astrofisica per ansiosi. By 2012, her books had sold approximately three million copies worldwide, and her debut novel, Nihal della terra del vento, was a finalist for the 2005 Premio Italia. She married in 2007 and has one daughter.

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Books

• La Missione di Sennar (2004) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Nihal della Terra del Vento (2004) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Il Talismano del Potere (2005) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• La Setta degli Assassini (2006) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Le Due Guerriere (2007) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Un Nuovo Regno (2007) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Il Destino di Adhara (2008) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Figlia del Sangue (2009) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon
• Gli Ultimi Eroi (2010) · Chronicles of the Emerged World Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 9 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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