About the Author

Odyssey of a Heart is the official website of Ana Angelica Abaya van Doorn writing as Angelica Hopes.

Angelica Hopes is the nom de plume of Ana Angelica Abaya van Doorn. She is lovingly committed to her husband and is a dedicated mother to her three daughters. She is a Swiss-Italian, Filipino-born literary novelist, author, aphorist, essayist, memoirist, poet, English-Italian translator, connoisseur of books and audiobooks, polyglot, and enthusiast of a nutritarian lifestyle and travel.

She is the eldest daughter of the late Attorney George Cadena Abaya and the late Villa Salazar Asetre Abaya.

She wrote articles on gender and life issues for Rappler and the Filipino Expat Magazine. TIME quoted me (November 2013) from my article on dealing with death, loss, and grief. She supports PEN International, Free Press Unlimited, Writers Unlimited, United Nations Watch, and the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. She has done various tasks in life: flights dispatcher and flights coordinator of Citation X and Hawker 800XP private jets, a research analyst in the agricultural sector, loans and credit analyst in the banking sector of Land Bank of the Philippines head office, translator and legal assistant in a big law firm in canton Tessin, Switzerland, shipping insurance employee, a former aviation PPL student, a piano and English tutor, a ghostwriter. She took international law courses at The Hague Academy of International Law, a psychology course, and advanced creative writing courses at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She loves to travel and learn foreign languages. She is currently working on multiple genres of fiction and nonfiction books: an inspirational political trilogy, a psychological, romantic suspense trilogy, a criminal suspense trilogy, a pentalogy (comedy, historical, romance, political, and suspense), ghostwriting memoirs, and translating manuscripts from Italian to English.

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I’m also on Vimeo at Golden Moments and Angelica Hopes

Author of the books:

1. Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
2. Landscapes of a Heart, Whispers of a Soul
3. Life Issues
4. Behavioural Haiku
5. Life Unfolds
6. Hagupit kan Haiku
7. Si svolge la vita
8. If I Could Tell You
9. Il ritmo di un cuore, la musica di un’anima
10. I paessaggi di un cuore, i sussurri di un’anima

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