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Beatrice Alemagna

Beatrice Alemagna was born in Bologna, Italy in 1973. After achieving a degree in graphic design in the I.S.I.A school, she won the first prize in an illustration contest “Figures futures” at the Montreux book fair, in Paris in 1996, along with prizes Attention Talent-Fnac (in 2000). She has published about fifteen comic books as a writer/illustrator, with Seuil, Autrement jeunesse and Gallimard jeunesse but also with Didier Jeunesse, Rue du Monde and Thierry Magnier.

Beatrice Alemagna is an author and illustrator of children’s books, including Never, Not Ever (2021) and On a Magical Do Nothing Day (2018). She is the winner of numerous awards, including the New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.