Seventh Edition Jury

Writer and literary critic. He is the author of the novels La biblioteca delle idee morte (2007), L’irreversibilità dell’uovo sodo (2009), Nessuno ha mai visto decadere l’atomo di idrogeno (2012), and Certi ricordi non tornano (2018), as well as the short story I dannati della Saint George (2015). His non-fiction works include the essay collections Ciak si legge(2016) and Una tranquilla repubblica libresca (2017), the critical biography Il baule di Conrad (2015)—which has also been translated in France—and the critical monograph La Roma di Pasolini (2017).
He has edited editions of works by Flaubert, de Maupassant, Zola, Musil, Stevenson, Melville, Conrad, Svevo, Salgari,Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Chekhov. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the literary magazine Passaporto Nansen and contributes to the Salgari-focused journal Il corsaro nero.

She is a professor of “History and Documentation of Fashion,” “Fashion Communication and Publishing,” and “Women’s History and Gender Identity” at the University of Milan. She has collaborated on the curation of historical exhibitions in partnership with the Region of Lombardy, the Province of Milan, and the Municipality of Milan.
She serves as president of the association Memoria & Progetto, acts as regional coordinator for Lombardy on the national project “Gli Archivi della moda del Novecento,” and is a coordinator for the “BookCity Milano” festival. Additionally,she is a member of the editorial board for the journal Pretext. Libri e Periodici. Del loro passato, del loro futuro.

Having lost his way in an initial degree in Sports Sciences and various coaching licenses due to rusted athletic ambitions,he decided to start over. After winning a few awards for poetry, he studied at private writing schools such as Bottega Finzioni and Scuola Holden, before returning to university, where he is currently completing his degree at DAMS. A winner or finalist in various competitions for television formats and animated series writing, he has written for Moreno Morello, video game development studios, and various short story collections. He now publishes young adult novels with the Mondadori Group and works in reading promotion, professional development courses for children’s authors, and advocating for equal status between children’s and adult authors at ICWA (Italian Association of Writers for Children and Young Adults).

An Emiliana through and through, she graduated with a degree in Performing Arts (DAMS) from the University of Bologna before moving to Turin to attend the Scuola Holden – Storytelling and Performing Arts. It was there that she decided to make writing her lifelong career. Currently, she works as an editorial consultant for several children’s book publishers and writes for a communications agency. In addition, she is a member of the editorial team at Tropismi, an online cultural magazine, and the founder of Svoltapagina, a literary blog where she shares weekly reading recommendations for both adults and young readers. Her constant search for new inspiration and wonder also led her to create “#Svoltiamopagina! Il gruppo di lettura diverso”—a unique book club featuring a seven-session workshop designed for seventh-grade classes to tear down and reconstruct stories together while having fun. She believes in the power of words, kindness, and doing things with care.