Pupil Remembers

Screenwriter, director, author, and film critic, he spent over 20 years as part of the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival.
He made his debut in children's fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored a wide range of genres: from the historical fantasy of La notte delle malombre and Di fuoco e seta (both longlisted for the Strega Ragazzi Award and finalists in various literary prizes), to the horror of Goodwill and Nessuno verrà a prenderti, to nonfiction with the cinema guide 116 Movies to See Before You’re 16, and the genre-bending novel Dedalo & Dharma, all the way to social noir with Barriera (all published by the Mondadori Group).
The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters and Try Not to Sleep are his adult fiction titles.
In 2022, he made his directorial and screenwriting debut in cinema with Il viaggio degli eroi, produced by Rai Cinema and awarded with record-breaking viewership on Rai1.

Artist, illustrator. Born in 1968, he graduated in 1985 at the State Art School in Rome, and immediately afterwards he moved to Perugia, to take a degree course in veterinary medicine. After five years he returned to Rome: he preferred illustrating animals’ souls to curing their ailments. In 2000 he was selected for the ILLUSTRATORS EXHIBITION at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. He collaborates with various schools, holding visual perception, drawing and illustration workshops for children and teenagers. He works with various publishers around the world.