Hilda De Felice

Born in Glasgow in 1949, Hilda De Felice is a third-generation Italian Scot, with both her grandparents from the Comino Valley. Her grandfather was from Picinisco and her grandmother from Atina. Despite choosing Spanish over Italian for her degree in Foreign Languages, she proudly identifies as an Italian Scot. Though she doesn’t speak Italian, Hilda celebrates her Italianness through her remarkable creativity. In 2019, she wrote a film script titled Loving the Enemy, a real-life account of her father’s service in the British Army during WWII. While the script never secured funding for a film, it was adapted into a successful play with the help of Italian Scottish actor Lorenzo Novani. Their collaboration continued, and in May 2025, Hilda co-wrote The Badly Behaved Poets Society with Novani. This new play stages a fictional meeting between Scottish poet Robert Burns and Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli in the afterlife