ARIANNA PANINI (Illustrator – Silent Book Contest Winner)
Writer, artist, teacher and art therapist, she studied arts in high school and then Architecture in Florence and Art Therapy in Bologna. As a student she was already collaborating with the Industrial Design class, she graduated with a thesis on book-games design and later taught Theory of formal languages. She holds courses in storytelling, art and illustration in national and international schools, including Isia Urbino and the Sàrmede School. She also holds updating courses, individual sessions and therapeutic groups in her studio in Florence. She has written and illustrated 150 books with which he has won many prizes, including the Silent Book Contest, the “Premio Rodari” and the “Premio Andersen” as best illustrator of 2018. Some of her books are published and co-edited in France, Spain, Portugal, in England, China, Taiwan.