Authors (63)
Fiore Manni
Fiore Manni lives in Rome with her partner. She studied fashion design and for several years presented the popular kids’ TV show, “Camilla Store”. The first Jack Bennet adventure (Rizzoli), and her debut novel (Jack Bennet e la chiave di tutte le cose) won the Premio Asti d’Appello Junior prize, and was a finalist in the Castello di Sanguinetto prize, the oldest prize for children’s fiction. In her free time, she is a content creator and talks about books on her Instagram profile.
Barbara Gozzi
Barbara Gozzi is a senior editor, author, creative, ghostwriter and much more. She coordinates publishing projects and various types of content, curates training courses and has a hand in events, initiatives and, before the camerawork, in outlines and scripts.
Marco Ponti
Marco Ponti is a writer, director and screenwriter. His films include the cult movie Santa Maradona (winner of two David di Donatello awards), the great successes with audiences Io che amo solo te and La cena di Natali based on the novels by Luca Bianchini, and La Bella Stagione (winner of a Nastro d’Argento), created with Gianluca Vialli, Roberto Mancini and the Sampdoria players who achieved the epic feat of winning the football championship in 1991 and remained lifelong friends. He has also published the novels Alice resta a casa (Alice Stays at Home) with Manlio Castagna, winner of the Watty 2020 for the best Young Adult story on Wattpad, R – Ribelli, revoluzione e rock ‘n’ roll (R – Rebels, Revolution and Rock ‘n’ Roll) with Christian Hill, and the ghost book series that began with Ombre che camminano and continues with La città delle streghe (The City of Witches) due to be published in autumn 2023.
Giuseppe D'Anna
Giuseppe D’Anna is a writer, graphic designer and illustrator. Not necessarily in that order. Having arrived in the dark lands of publishing as a ghost writer of other people’s books, at a certain point he decided to start writing his own. These include Voglio fare lo strego (The Boy Born a Witch), his first real children’s novel. Warning: his stories may contain traces of magic and wordplay. Keep out of reach of adults.
Harriet Webster
Harriet Webster is a British writer of comics and TV and film scripts for children and adults. She loves to tell stories about empowerment and stories based on historical realism, both for her own IPs and those of others. Her most recent collaborations include with Disney Publishing, Mondadori, Movimenti, Rebel Girls and many others.
Elena Peduzzi
Elena Peduzzi lives in Milan. She has a degree in Classics with an archaeological specialisation and has worked in editing children's books for Mondadori. She is a ghost writer and author of novels published by the main Italian publishing houses and translated into numerous languages. She has recently published Uomini d’amore (Men of Love) for Solferino and Amore, sesso e altre cose così (Love, Sex and Other Such Things) with Fiore Manni for Rizzoli.
Lucia Stipari
Lucia Stipari was born in Milan and has been working in the publishing field for many years. She’s a partner at Studio Pym, a creative agency that deals with books, graphics and communication, but since she lost herself among the branches of Book on a Tree, she has understood that the thing she likes most is writing.
Lucia Perrucci
Lucia Perrucci grew up in Puglia, among olive groves, cats and rolls of film. She has always been in love with stories, studying literature in Bologna and scriptwriting at the Giffoni Film Festival masterclass. Today she writes and teaches at school, where she madly adores her students, from whom she steals perhaps her most interesting ideas. Cassandra Apollinaire’s Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine is her first children’s novel.
Marco Magnone
Marco Magnone is one of the children’s authors who is most appreciated and requested by schools, events and reading groups, thanks to which he meets thousands and thousands of young readers throughout Italy every year. He also teaches at Scuola Holden in Turin and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, as well as collaborating on the artistic direction of the Mare di Libri festival in Rimini and Storie in Cammino in Firenzuola.
Gud
Gud lives in Rome and hates low ceilings and socks with loose elastic. His balance hiccups, he can't run, he draws well and writes brilliantly. He describes comics to the world in lessons, meetings and workshops and, through comics, tries to describe the world. Born in August 1976, he grew up on bread and cartoons and has a degree in Political Science with a thesis on Will Eisner.
He's an author of cartoons, humorous strips, illustrations and comic stories for children. He conceived the Timothy Top series and wrote and drew the comic manuals Tutti Possono Fare Fumetti and Come Creare Fumetti published by Tunuè. He writes and illustrates for Il Castoro, Coconino, Comix, Dami, Mondadori Ragazzi and Sonda. He is one of the creators and organisers of ARF! Comics Festival in Rome.
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Tea Orsi
Ever since she was a child, Tea has loved making up stories, comics and even whole magazines. Fortunately, over the years, her passion for writing has not faded...
Today she is a screenwriter of animated series and an author of comics, books and magazines for children.
She writes in both English and Italian and her days are spent in the company of princesses, fairies and other fantastic characters, always ready to experience fun adventures on television or on the printed page.
She lives in Parma with her family and two cute little dogs and she loves travelling around the world, looking for ideas that can inspire new stories yet to be told.
Carla Anzile
Carla Anzile was born in Pordenone and worked as a children’s theatre entertainer and actress.
She has been a primary school teacher for 27 years.
She made her writing debut in 2020 with the illustrated book Il gatto con i pattini a rotelle (The Cat with Rollerblades) for La Spiga Gallucci and with the mystery novel Uscita di sicurezza (Emergency Exit) for Pelledoca.
Roberta Terracchio
Roberta Terracchio is an author and illustrator. Since 2013 she has been illustrating and writing for publishers in Italy and abroad, such as Giunti, Erickson, Hachette Children’s Group, Nomos Edizioni, Matamua Books, VerbaVolant Edizioni, Pane e Sale edizioni and Valentina Edizioni.
She is a co-founder of the IDAMM (I draw in my own way) group and president of the Aduntratto association, an illustration magazine.
Martina Tonello
Martina Tonello is an illustrator with experience in carpentry. She was born in 1993 and lives in the Bolognese Apennines, where she explores the woods in search of animals and stories. An author and illustrator of picture books, she publishes with various publishing houses including Terre di Mezzo, Camelozampa, Mondadori ElectaKids, Comme des géants and Milky Way Picture Books.