50 Challenges to Be a Champion

Pierdomenico Baccalario has been writing children’s novels since 1997, when he won the Il Battello a Vapore literary prize with La strada del Guerriero (The Way of the Warrior) using his neighbour’s name. Since then, his bestsellers have been written under as many pseudonyms (the best known being Ulysses Moore and Irene Adler), translated into more than thirty languages and published with major Italian and foreign publishers. He has collaborated with Lucca Comics & Games for more than twenty years, has written for Repubblica and is a columnist for the newspaper Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura literary supplement. In 2014, he founded the Book on a Tree creative agency in London.

Massimo Prosperi was born in Acqui Terme in 1974, and he really loves sports. After collaborating with RadioPNR since 2007, he became editor of the weekly magazine L'Ancora in Acqui Terme. He has contributed to five editions of the Annuario del Calcio Piemonte (Piedmont Football Yearbook) and is co-author, together with Marco Ghezzi and Vito Fanelli, of the Annuario del Calcio Provinciale di Alessandria (Alessandria Provincial Football Yearbook).