Vichi De Marchi

She was born in Venice and lives in Rome. A journalist, she has written for television, daily newspapers, and weeklies, and has worked extensively for the United Nations. Her books have received numerous awards, including a mention for the Andersen Prize and inclusion in the shortlist for the 2016 Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi Prize. Her biographies of women scientists, including My Life Among the Gorillas and Girls with Numbers, written with popularizer Roberta Fulci, have been translated into many languages. Among her most recent novels, I maestri di strada (Einaudi Ragazzi, 2018) won the Procida – Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini prize, while Nato a Hiroshima (De Agostini, 2020) won the Città di Castello prize.