Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten Giorgio van Straten (born 1955) is an Italian writer and manager of arts organizations. His first novel "Generazione" was published in 1987. In 2000 he won four literary prizes for "Il mio nome a memoria", published in English as "My Name, A Living Memory" (2003), the story of his Jewish-Dutch family from 1811 to our days. That same year he was awarded the Grand Official Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He translated from English into Italian "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Giunti, 1992),"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (Giunti, 1994),"The Jungle
Samavia as the Iarovitch tried to crown Nicola Iarovitch king. The Secret Party was, though, capable of rising up and sweeping aside the feuding dynasties and proclaim Stefan Loristan, descendant of the Lost Prince, king. The ultimate fate of the countries is not described by the author, but it might be presumed that Samavia was absorbed into one of the East and Central Europe nations formed after World War I. Samavia Samavia is a fictional state in Eastern Europe created in the novel "The Lost Prince" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Samavia is not precisely located in terms of real life geography,