PERSONAL AWARDS RECEIVED:
- NATIONAL ANDERSEN PRIZE 2003 THE WORLD OF CHILDHOOD 12th EDITION “BEST WRITER” (SESTRI LEVANTE – GE – ITALY).
- HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF ITALIAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS (ROME – ITALY).
- REPRESENTATIVE OF CLEAR FAME AND EXCELLENCE OF THE ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS (ROMA -ITALY).
- CITY OF BUDRIO PRICE (BO-ITALY) AWARD HANDED IN BY BUDRIO’S COUNCIL DURING THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC DAY ON THE 2nd JUNE 2005.
- NOMINATED IN THE LIST OF HONOR IBBY 1994, INTERNATIONAL BOARD ON BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BASEL-SVIZZERA, AS THE ITALY RAPRESENTATIVE AT THE SIVIGLIA MEETING (SPAIN)
- NOMINEE AT THE HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AWARD 2004
- IBBY ITALIAN CANDIDATE 2006.
- AMONGST THE CANDIDATES TO “ALMA” ( Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award) 2012 and 2013.
The Writer’s Biography
She was born in Budrio, in Italy, where she spent her childhood and her adolescence, she graduated from Bologna University in Medieval History. She moved to Pescara, where she taught Italian in junior and secondary school, getting involved in many activities of experimentation and research.
In the’ 80s she collaborated with the Institute of Italian Encyclopedia, working on a multimedial project for italian’s sons living abroad and she edited the anthology “Message in a bottle” published by Mursia. At the same time she made her debut as a children writer with “Adalbento’s memories”, a short novel very innovative both in writing and contents, which started the collaboration with the Trieste’s Editor El-Einaudi Ragazzi-Emme Edizioni still lasting today.
The book, translated in different European countries, received important awards and was welcomed as a “definite and unequivocal signal of renewal” in italian children’s literature. Subsequently, followed a production of tales and novels for children and teen-agers, that confirmed her writing quality and moreover her capacity of inquiring into male and female psycology of different ages.
In 1995 she quitted school to devote herself completely to writing: since then the novels of her full expressive and narrative maturity have been published, that have given her national and international notoriety.
Noteworty, among them, “My grandfather was a cherry tree” which has had 23 foreign editions, as well as “shortlisted by the Deutsche Jungenliteratur 2002”, has been selected for the “Prix Chronos” in France and recived the Award as “The best translated book” Slovackia 2008.
