Davide Morosinotto

Simply Heroes. Franco Basaglia, the king of madman – vol. 1

Biography

Ordinary People Who Did Extraordinary Things

His mother is crazy, that’s why Lisa can’t stay with her. To meet her, Lisa has to go to the big asylum on the hill and get past the guard at the gate. A true nightmare for Lisa. Luckily, a new director is about to arrive at the Trieste asylum. Franco Basaglia. Lisa’s and her family’s lives will change forever. Even the entire city will change. All of Italy. And the way people think about that strange, mysterious, and often frightening thing we call “madness.”

A series of immediate and genuine books, where the ordinary is extraordinary and even the smallest gesture can make a difference.
An authentic source of inspiration to face life with courage and hope.

Publisher: Edizioni EL

Target: 8-10

Year: 2017

Author

Davide Morosinotto

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.

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