Kuki Gallmann

Kuki Gallman (* 1943 in Treviso) is a Kenyan author and conservationist.

The Italian-born Gallman emigrated in 1973 with her ​​husband and son to Kenya and took to the Kenyan citizenship. The family bought a farm in the Great Rift Valley. Died in 1980 Gallmanns man in a car accident three years later her son died after a snake bite. In 1984, the Gallman Gallman Memorial Foundation, which advocates for the protection of the environment and animals in Kenya. On the grounds of their farm is one of the few intact ecosystems in East Africa.

Gallman wrote several books that have been translated into 21 languages. Her autobiography, I Dreamed of Africa was made ​​into a film in 2000 starring Kim Basinger.

Publications

  • The color of the wind; Droemer Knaur, 1996; ISBN 342660552X
  • African nights; Droemer Knaur, 1999; ISBN 3426614332
  • Elephant in my garden; Droemer Knaur, 2002; ISBN 3426196131
  • The Night of the lions; Droemer Knaur, 2001; ISBN 3426618265
  • I Dreamed of Africa, from the English by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann; Knaur Paperback Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-50044-6. (New edition )
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