Nasce a Milano nell’agosto del ’76 da padre impiegato e madre operaia. Frequenta l’asilo nella classe blu e ottiene la parte dell’orso in letargo nella recita sull'Inverno. Nel 1998 non ha ancora i denti del giudizio ma si diploma in montaggio cinematografico. Da allora ha scritto, prodotto e realizzato diversi film e documentari. Ha diretto CittàGiardino (2018) e Creatura dove vai? (2019).
Nicola Cinquetti è nato nel 1965 e vive a Pescantina, in provincia di Verona. Laureato in filosofia e in pedagogia (con una tesi sulla narrativa di Donatella Ziliotto), insegna storia e filosofia in un liceo. Il suo primo libro, Eroi, re, regine e altre rime, è uscito nel 1997 per le Nuove Edizioni Romane. Ha pubblicato ad oggi una quarantina di titoli di poesia e narrativa per bambini e ragazzi con diversi editori: Arka, Bompiani, Bruno Mondadori, Fabbri, Fatatrac, Giunti, Lapis, Parapiglia, Piemme, Raffaello, Rizzoli, San Paolo.
Federica Buglioni was born and lives in Milan. After working in translation, interpreting and editing for many years, she started to cook with children and to investigate their relation with food. Since 2006, she carries on cooking workshops to improve children's food education, as well as teachers training courses. She is founder of Bambini in Cucina association, a member of Milanoperibambini editorial board, and of Foodinsider (an observatory for school canteens) scientific committee.
Monika Vaicenaviciene is an award-winning illustrator and picture book author. She was born in 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania. After completing her illustration and printmaking studies at Vilnius Academy of Arts, she went on to study for a Master’s degree in Visual communication at Stockholm Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.
Chenxino was born in China in 1993. She studied Cartooon Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hubei, China, and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Her first book, La luce [The light], encapsulates her great passion and her love for drawing: picture books are for her "one of the purest and most beautiful kinds of art, like a lamp lighting up the darkness". Her style contaminates traditional Chinese painting with Western abstract art. Her works contain "the naive dreams of children”.
Sahar Doustar was born in Tehran in 1985. She studied at the University of Science and Technology of Iran where she graduated in Architecture and Engineering. She also has a Master's Degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. She is currently attending her two-year specialization in Graphic Design for Illustration at ISIA, in Urbino.
Once upon a time in Persia is her first book as an author.
Sandol Stoddard Warburg is the author of 26 published books, including 21 written especially for children. She has four sons who are grown up now, but she says they are still her greatest inspiration. Thanks to them she also has ten grandchildren and five great grandchildren - all of them, she says, “quite fascinating and a lot of fun”.
Shin Sun-Mi graduated from the Ulsan University, and later from the Hongik Graduate School, majoring in oriental painting. She won a prize in the 2003 Art Concours of Korea, and has been active in and out of the country, participating in the Korea-Japan Exhibit (2007), and the International Art Fair in Korea (2008) as well as the SCOPE New York (2009). Since 2006, through several exhibitions, she has shared with the public a whole series of Ant-Fairies.
Janna Carioli vive fra Bologna e L’isola d’Elba. Scrive libri per ragazzi che spaziano fra diversi generi: poesia, romanzi, albi illustrati. E’ autrice di amatissimi programmi televisivi (Amici Mostri, Cartoon Network, Trebisonda, Melevisione, Bumbi). Ha vinto numerosi premi letterari e i suoi libri sono stati più volte inseriti nella selezione di letteratura The White Ravens, che ogni anno segnala buoni libri a livello internazionale. Insegna sceneggiatura televisiva a Bottega Finzioni di Carlo Lucarelli.
Olga Tokarczuk (1962) is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation. In 2018 she won The International Man-Booker Prize, in 2009 and in 2015 she received Poland’s highest literary honour, the Nike (and the Nike Readers’ Prize). Tokarczuk also received the international Brueckepreis and the prestigious annual literary award from Poland's Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She is the author of eight novels, two short story collections.