Beatrice Solinas Donghi (1923-2015), nacque a Serra Riccò (Genova) da una famiglia aristocratica. Il padre era giornalista e la madre una pittrice inglese. Esordì con L’estate della menzogna (Feltrinelli, 1959) cui seguirono parecchie altre opere per adulti. Appassionata studiosa di narrazione popolare, curò molte raccolte tra cui Fiabe Liguri assieme a Pino Boero (Mondadori, 1982), e scrisse il saggio La fiaba come racconto (Marsilio, 1976).
Rosa Tiziana Bruno, sociologa e insegnante, è autrice di saggi sull'educazione, racconti fiabeschi e romanzi. Si occupa di formazione docenti e conduce ricerche scientifiche sulla didattica narrativa. Dal 2014 è direttrice artistica del festival di letteratura per ragazzi Scampia Storytelling. Nel 2017 ha vinto l’International Writers Awards, assegnato dall’Institute for Education, Research and Scolarship (IFERS) di Los Angeles.
Ruth Krauss was one of the most widely celebrated children’s book authors of all time. Her long list of award-winning books includes The Carrot Seed, A Hole Is to Dig, Open House for Butterflies, and many others. Her books continue to be read and cherished by children throughout the world.
Di origine etrusca, Giovanna Ranaldi vive tra Roma e Madrid. E’ stata incisore, stampatore, restauratrice, educatrice; attualmente è illustratrice e autrice. Per quattro anni ha ideato e condotto un laboratorio d’arte per senza dimora presso un centro diurno di Roma.
Elisabetta Curzel is a scientific journalist. She takes care of the scientific and cultural sections of newspapers and magazines (including Il Corriere della Sera, IlSole24Ore, Wired, L’Osservatore Romano). Since 2010 she collaborates as a news correspondent and author for Rai. In 2015 she was selected for a worldwide journalists team to participate in the World Science Forum in Budapest, sponsored by UNESCO. In 2016 she gained Nature da seguire scholarship, ESOF (EuroScience Open Forum) in Manchester, where she was an invited speaker.
Marina Marinelli was born in 1974 in Perugia, where she’s living and working. She draws and “lives” animals ever since she can remember. After studying Arts, she graduated in 2002 at ISIA, in Urbino. She immediately started collaborating with fashion and design publishers, as a creative illustrator and graphic designer. Since 2004 she started publishing children's books for Italian and foreign publishers.
While growing up, Ana was lucky enough to live right next to the beach. That’s where she used to spend most of her time — not only diving in the sea, but also exploring tide pools, taking walks and seeking fossils.
Aurore Petit was born in France, in 1981. She grew up in Haute-Savoie. She graduated at Strasbourg School of Art in 2006, and now she lives in Paris. She works for children's literature and as an illustrator for adults as well, namely for newspapers. She has come to work with space and volumes too, with theatre set design.
Jurga Vilė was born in 1977 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French philology at the University of Vilnius and studied film science and audiovisual media at the University of Sorbonne III in Paris. Since more than twenty years she’s been working on different cultural projects, also translating from French, Spanish and English. In 2017 Jurga Vilė wrote her first graphic novel Sibiro Haiku (tr: Siberian Haiku, illustrated by Lina Itagaki), which won several awards and has been selected as The 2018 Children’s Book of the Year in Lithuania.
Nasce a Milano nell'inverno 1985. La neve sfiora i nasi. Seguono anni fatti di biro masticate, ginocchia sbucciate, lezioni al Conservatorio Verdi, corse all’Università, bisbigli alle proiezioni della Scuola di Cinema. Ha scritto Dove non si tocca (Et Al Edizioni) e Poesie Criminali (Stampa 2009) - Premio Fogazzaro 2017. Dall'incontro con Marco Piccarreda nascono i film CittàGiardino (2018) e Creatura dove vai? (2019).