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Raffaella Pajalich lives and works in Rome as endocrinologist and psychotherapist, and she has a long-dating passion for literature. She has always nourished her interest in both the scientific and humanistic fields, believing this tendency to separation is wrong, since both medicine and literature are focused on the human being considered as a whole.

Toon Tellegen (1941), author and poet, is one of the Netherlands' most celebrated writers. His animal stories have been translated into 19 languages and are loved by children and parents the world over. He lives in Amsterdam, and loves reading, telling stories and huge, sweet cakes.

Photo © Koos Breukel

Francesca Biasetton, illustrator and calligrapher, worked in the fashion industry for magazines, catalogues, commercials. Her work has been displayed in the solo exhibition Cento disegni per la moda, and the collective exhibition Favolose – 15 illustratrici italiane per l’infanzia. She collaborates with cinema, theatre and publishing projects. Among her picture books, Abbecedario (Panini, 2009) was awarded with Premio Andersen 2003 and Premio Stregagatto 2004, and Chi ha rapito Giallo Canarino?

Yoon Kang-mi majored in painting at the university and has presented works in many exhibitions and studied picture books at various workshops. She was selected as an artist to be supported through visitors’ vote in the first Un-printed Ideas exhibition hosted by the Hyundai Museum of Kids’ Books and Art in 2018. A Building Where Trees Grow is her first original picture book.

Regina Giménez was born in 1966 in Barcelona, where she lives and works. Her paintings and collages start from astronomy, science and technology old diagrams and graphics, whereby she creates her own abstract language made of textures and colours. She had many solo exhibitions in art galleries in Spain and abroad. She took part is collective exhibition, among others, at Fundació Joan Miró; Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes; Centre d'Art Fabra i Coats, Barcelona.

Elham Asadi was born in Iran. She graduated in Graphic Design and had a Master of Arts in Illustration at Tehran University. In 2000, she moved to Italy; she studied Painting and specialized in Multimedia Languages at Florence's Academy of Fine Arts, where she later on worked as an assistant professor of Art in Graphic Design (2009). In 2003, she publishes her first picture books, among which I Tenebrini and Gatto sogna.

Gideon Sterer is an American author whose books include Skyfishing, illustrated by Poly Bernatene, Not Your Nest, illustrated by Andrea Tsurumi, From Ed's to Ned's, illustrated by Ruth Cummins, and The Night Knights, illustrated by Cory Godbey, which has been optioned by Sony Pictures. Gideon grew up in the woods of upstate New York, where his parents owned a little zoo where he would run around after-hours and let the animals out. 

Sara Gamberini was born in Verona, in 1971. She graduated in Italian Literature. Maestoso è l'abbandono, her first novel, was published by Hacca Edizioni in 2018.