Nata in un piccolo paesino delle campagne trevigiane, fin da piccola è stata attratta dal disegno e dal pasticciare con le proprie mani con forme e colori, caratteristica non attenuatasi con l'età. Dopo la maturità artistica ha intrapreso il corso in Disegno Industriale dell'Università IUAV di Treviso fino alla specializzazione in Comunicazioni Visive e Multimediali.
Marianna Merisi is a landscape architect who gathers together either a wide botanical knowledge and uncommon talent in drawing. In 2015 she was awarded with Premio Lavinia Taverna, a prominent prize dedicated to women working in the fields of gardening and landscape. She graduated at Milan Politecnico with a thesis on “Pioneer Plants: a urban regeneration project”. Since 2010 to 2016 she collaborated with Cooperativa Sociale Cascina Bollate, inside the jail premises in the outskirts of Milan, a nursery-garden where unusual plant species are grown.
Born in 1930, Ingrid Bachér is an author and great-granddaughter of German poet Theodor Storm. She served as the president of the German PEN center. She wrote La bambina e il gatto for her daughter in the 1960s.
Maria José Ferrada is a writer and a journalist. Her children’s books have been published in Chile, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. Among the prizes she’s been awarded there are Premio Academia Chilena de la Lengua, Premio Poesía para Niños Ciudad de Orihuela, Premio Marta Brunet del Consejo del Libro y la Lectura, Premio de Literatura Municipalidad de Santiago. Her book Niños, dedicated to the children who were killed or made disappear during Chile’s dictatorship, was selected as representative for Chile in Ibby international catalogue.
Antonella Capetti was born in Grosio, a small town in Northern Italy, in 1967. She started reading before she was 5 and hasn’t stopped ever since. When she was 20, she started teaching at kindergarten, where she worked for 17 years. Then she moved to primary school, where she’s being teaching Italian since 2004. Her strong passion for picture books has always been a constant theme in her work: since 2013 she takes care of Apedario blog, where she writes on her activities with pupils inspired on picture books reading. She published nursery rhymes and short stories.
Francesca Brunetti è nata a Firenze, città in cui si è laureata in Lingue e letterature straniere moderne. Lavora come bibliotecaria all’INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri dove partecipa anche alla progettazione delle attività di diffusione della cultura scientifica per i bambini. Da più di un decennio si occupa di letteratura per ragazzi collaborando con riviste specializzate e di comunicazione scientifica e scrivendo libri.
Aleksandr Ivanovič Kuprin (1870 -1938) was a Russian writer. Since young, he started the military career, which he left soon after. His first novels, such as The duel (1905) deal with military life considered from a critical viewpoint. Among his most beloved, inspiring authors are Rudyard Kipling and Jack London. After the Russian revolution, he moved to Paris where he lived nearly until his death.
Hélène Gaudy was born in Paris in 1979. She comes from a visual art background and she investigates the relation between text and image as well as how places influence storytelling. After her first novel, Vues sur la mer, which was selected by Prix Médicis in 2006, she has worked on several editorial projects. She published novels (Si rien ne bouge, Le Rouergue, 2009, Plein hiver, Actes Sud, 2014), children’s books (Quand j’étais cagibi, Le Rouergue, 2013) and art books.
