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Born in Lucca in 1981, Teo Benedetti is a versatile author specializing in books for children and young adults, published by renowned publishers such as Edizioni EL, Einaudi Ragazzi, and Fanucci. A multifaceted freelance professional, he works as a blogger, copy editor, and social media manager. He has collaborated with organizations like Corriere Sociale, Corriere del Mezzogiorno, AVIS, and Lucca Comics & Games. In 2013 and 2014, he was among the organizers of DigiLab, the digital laboratory of the Turin Book Fair, where he engaged over 1,500 young people in an innovative dialogue about their relationship with new technologies.

An author whose books have been translated into 25 languages, in Italy Davide Morosinotto won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with Il Rinomato Catalogo Walker&Dawn (The Pocket Watch Gang), Mondadori, and the Strega Children’s Prize 2021 with La Più Grande (The Greatest), Rizzoli, with which he also entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. A finalist at the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he has also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove prize in Catalonia and he was nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2022 in the United Kingdom.