Davide Morosinotto

Author translated into 25 languages, he won the Super Andersen Prize in 2017 with The Renowned Walker & Dawn Catalogue (Mondadori) and the Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2021 with The Biggest (Rizzoli), a title with which he entered the IBBY Honour List 2021. For Mondadori he also published The Blazing Light of Two Red Stars, The Lost Flower of the Shaman of K. and The Last Hunter, finalist for the Andersen Prize 2022. He has received many international awards: finalist for the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis and winner of the Penzberger Urmel in Germany, he also won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine and the Grand Prix des Lecteurs du Journal de Mickey in France, the Vlag en Wimpel and the Zilveren Griffel in Holland, the KJV in Flanders, the Protagonista Jove award in Catalonia and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. 2022 in the UK. The Wind Thief is part of the “Da Mar Saga,” along with The Child of the Sea.