About Francesca

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Born in Milan, now living and working in Genoa, after telling her daughters bedtime stories for years, she comes along fiction by chance and for fun.

Selected at the Literary Prize Gutenberg with "Ireos the Iris".

Mention of honour at the International Literary Prize for the Illustrated Fable with "How To Get On A Druid’s Nerves and Live Happily Even After".

She publishes with Edicolors "Shiro" in the series "Gli Acquarielli" and "Rainbow’s Milk” in the series "I Contastorie".

She creates the figure of Hubi, the protagonist of a series of children’s books published by Ta-toh for the Assegno Amico Association, promoted by the Gaslini Foundation of Genoa.

Prize "Giovanni Arpino" 2011 and Special Mention both at the National Literary Prize for Young Adults "Città di Bella" and at the Fourth National Literary Prize for Young Adults "Mariele Ventre" with "Kahuna The Quest for Hollow Earth and The Rongorongo Tablets" whose booktrailer was declared  2010 best literary trailer at the Booktrailer Fest of Menaggio and was awarded the Antonio Fogazzaro Prize.
With Kahuna she starts a unique series of novels whose heroine is the blonde kahuna Stella: an innovative literary genre part adventure story, part fantasy and thriller, extending fiction borders for young readers but not only for them.