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While growing up, Ana was lucky enough to live right next to the beach. That’s where she used to spend most of her time — not only diving in the sea, but also exploring tide pools, taking walks and seeking fossils.

Aurore Petit was born in France, in 1981. She grew up in Haute-Savoie. She graduated at Strasbourg School of Art in 2006, and now she lives in Paris. She works for children's literature and as an illustrator for adults as well, namely for newspapers. She has come to work with space and volumes too, with theatre set design.

Jurga Vilė was born in 1977 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French philology at the University of Vilnius and studied film science and audiovisual media at the University of Sorbonne III in Paris. Since more than twenty years she’s been working on different cultural projects, also translating from French, Spanish and English. In 2017 Jurga Vilė wrote her first graphic novel Sibiro Haiku (tr: Siberian Haiku, illustrated by Lina Itagaki), which won several awards and has been selected as The 2018 Children’s Book of the Year in Lithuania.

Nasce a Milano nell'inverno 1985. La neve sfiora i nasi. Seguono anni fatti di biro masticate, ginocchia sbucciate, lezioni al Conservatorio Verdi, corse all’Università, bisbigli alle proiezioni della Scuola di Cinema. Ha scritto Dove non si tocca (Et Al Edizioni) e Poesie Criminali (Stampa 2009) - Premio Fogazzaro 2017. Dall'incontro con Marco Piccarreda nascono i film CittàGiardino (2018) e Creatura dove vai? (2019).

Nasce a Milano nell’agosto del ’76 da padre impiegato e madre operaia. Frequenta l’asilo nella classe blu e ottiene la parte dell’orso in letargo nella recita sull'Inverno. Nel 1998 non ha ancora i denti del giudizio ma si diploma in montaggio cinematografico. Da allora ha scritto, prodotto e realizzato diversi film e documentari. Ha diretto CittàGiardino (2018) e Creatura dove vai? (2019).

Nicola Cinquetti è nato nel 1965 e vive a Pescantina, in provincia di Verona. Laureato in filosofia e in pedagogia (con una tesi sulla narrativa di Donatella Ziliotto), insegna storia e filosofia in un liceo. Il suo primo libro, Eroi, re, regine e altre rime, è uscito nel 1997 per le Nuove Edizioni Romane. Ha pubblicato ad oggi una quarantina di titoli di poesia e narrativa per bambini e ragazzi con diversi editori: Arka, Bompiani, Bruno Mondadori, Fabbri, Fatatrac, Giunti, Lapis, Parapiglia, Piemme, Raffaello, Rizzoli, San Paolo.

Federica Buglioni was born and lives in Milan. After working in translation, interpreting and editing for many years, she started to cook with children and to investigate their relation with food. Since 2006, she carries on cooking workshops to improve children's food education, as well as teachers training courses. She is founder of Bambini in Cucina association, a member of Milanoperibambini editorial board, and of Foodinsider (an observatory for school canteens) scientific committee. 

Monika Vaicenaviciene is an award-winning illustrator and picture book author. She was born in 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania. After completing her illustration and printmaking studies at Vilnius Academy of Arts, she went on to study for a Master’s degree in Visual communication at Stockholm Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.

Chenxino was born in China in 1993. She studied Cartooon Animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hubei, China, and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. Her first book, La luce [The light], encapsulates her great passion and her love for drawing: picture books are for her "one of the purest and most beautiful kinds of art, like a lamp lighting up the darkness". Her style contaminates traditional Chinese painting with Western abstract art. Her works contain "the naive dreams of children”.

Sahar Doustar was born in Tehran in 1985. She studied at the University of Science and Technology of Iran where she graduated in Architecture and Engineering. She also has a Master's Degree in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. She is currently attending her two-year specialization in Graphic Design for Illustration at ISIA, in Urbino.
Once upon a time in Persia is her first book as an author.