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GIULIA FRANCHI & MASSIMILIANO DI LAURO
Angelo Mozzillo
Angelo Mozzillo writes stories for children and teenagers. His novels include the series of humorous detective stories Detective Linus (Il Battello a Vapore/Piemme). His latest picture books include La famosa esplosione alla fabbrica della nebbia, Clichy; Non mi aspettavo (I Didn’t Expect…), Terre di mezzo; and Io sono foglia (I Am a Leaf), Bacchilega Junior, the last of which won the Andersen Prize and SuperPrize in 2021.
Dimitri Galli Rohl
Dimitri Galli Rohl lives and works in Lucca, in Tuscany.
With a degree from the A. N. A. D. (Accademia Nazionale d'Arte drammatica “Silvio D'Amico”), he is an actor, director and theatrical pedagogue active throughout Italy.
Since 2016, he has collaborated with Book on a Tree, publishing two children's books; the first, “Il romanzo di Holly e Benji” was published by Mondadori in 2017, while “Kappa O.” for Einaudi (“Carta Bianca” series) arrived in bookshops in the spring of 2019. In the same year, the publishing house Marcos y Marcos published “Il Silenzio dei Gondolieri” by William Goldman, the first translation from American English, while during the “Lucca Comics and Games” event, the special edition of “La Principessa Sposa” - also written by Goldman, and personally curated by Dimitri - also came out with Marcos.
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Gisella Laterza
Gisella Laterza lives in Bergamo, or more precisely, in a café in the centre of Bergamo where she spends her time writing. When she’s not writing, she teaches Italian and Latin in a high school in the city and runs creative writing courses for boys and girls aged 6 to 99.
She has published novels, short stories for school anthologies, biographies and a rewriting of The Divine Comedy for boys and girls for the I Classicini series (EL, 2022).
Streghetta (My Friend is a Witch), Salani 2022, is her most successful series and has also been translated into Spanish (Duomo Ediciones).
Maddalena Schiavo
Maddalena lives near Vicenza, at the foot of the Castles of Romeo and Juliet
After her degree in philosophy, she worked for many years in a public library. For some years, she has been publishing various picture books and children’s fiction in Italy and abroad. She is also involved in animated reading and workshops in schools, libraries and bookshops.
Serenella Quarello
Serenella Quarello writes for children and teaches Spanish in a high school. She lives in a wood where, among animals, children and little daily disasters, she finds inspiration.
She has published "“Non puoi correre in pantaloncini corti! - 50 donne che hanno fatto la storia dello sport” for Rizzoli Mondadori, and several illustrated books and novels for tweens.
She writes theatrical scripts and directs a student theatre company, "Las Máscaras" with which, among others, she won the "Colour Award" in the Cesena National Theater Competition, with "Frida de los dolores, Frida de los colores" inspired by Frida Kahlo and “Lives of Evita”.
Since 2009, she has published a dozen works on teaching Spanish.
Currently, she has some ideas brewing away...
Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia
Sonia Elisabetta Corvaglia was born in Salento and lives and works in Milan. Passionate about Greek literature, rock music and cats, she teaches at a high school and is involved in projects for the inclusion and promotion of reading.
She is the author of children’s books which have also been translated abroad. Her favourite stories are about diversity and today’s adolescents.