BIO
Born in 1993, she is an Italian author and illustrator.
Since 2017 she works in children’s publishing, collaborating with Italian and foreign publishing houses and doing lectures and workshop.
Some of her books obtained important awards, like the “Cicla Award Best International Illustrated Book” curated by China Shangai International Children’s Book Fair (2021); the national award “Nati per leggere” (2019); the selection for the “Outstanding Picturebooks” exhibition curated by dPICTUS at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2018); the Serpa International Award for Picturebooks curated by Planeta Tangerina (2018).
Her illustrations has been selected at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in 2019 and 2022.
Actually she live and work between Torino and Bologna.
CHILDREN’S BOOK
Corraini (IT), Einaudi Ragazzi (IT), Mondadori Electa Kids (IT), RAUM Italic (IT), Biancoenero (IT), Camelozampa (IT), Edizioni Primavera (IT), M.O.L.L.A. (IT), Ziczic (IT), Vogue Bambini (IT), Planeta Tangerina (PT), Bruaà (PT), Editions Notari (FR), Editions Thierry Magnier (FR), Meraki Edicions Salòria (ES), Kuš! (LV), BRUL! (NL), Albus Corvus (RU), Danchu Press (KR), Boolight (KR), Wee Doo Magazine (KR), AWW Magazine (CN), Leetra (MX), Limonero (AR), Eerdmans (USA), Tundra (CA).
COLLABORATIONS
Smemoranda, Mousse Magazine, Vogue Bambini, GCDS, Illy, Garrincha Edizioni Musicali, GOGOL MAP’S – a project by Paolo Nori, University of Padua, EXPLORA Children’s Museum.
CONTACTS
MAIL:
volanoemi@gmail.com
IG:
@volanoemi
books
2022
→ If You Cry Like a Fountain, Tundra Books;
2021
→ Sulla vita sfortunata dei vermi. Trattato abbastanza breve di storia naturale, Corraini; → The Unforgettable Party, Tundra Books; → Grande come il mondo. La scuola di Gianni Rodari, text by Gianni rodari, Einaudi Ragazzi; → š! #41 “Dogs”, with various authors, Kuš! komikss; → Ciao Sasso, text by Giuseppe Caliceti, RAUM Italic;
2020
→ Monoporzioni, with various authors, Ziczic;
→ Piccola strega, text by Pascal Brullemans, Edizioni Primavera;
2019
→ Da Qui a Molto Lontano / From Here To Far Away / Wie weit ist es nach Sehr Weit Weg?, Corraini;
→ I cuscini magici, text by Evghenios Trivizàs, Camelozampa;
→ Pergunta ao teu pai e outras frases misteriosas dos adultos, text by Davide Calì, Bruaà;
→ Da grande voglio fare il poeta, text by Azzurra D'Agostino, Mondadori ElectaKids;
→ Questa non è una rosa. Manuale di filosofia, domande ed esercizi per bambini e adulti curiosi, text by I Ludosofici, Corraini;
2018
→ FIM? Isto Nao Açaba Assim, Planeta Tangerina;
→ Un libro di cavalli* | *rivoluzionari / A book of horses* | *Revolutionary, Corraini;
→ L’arrivo di Santa Lucia, with Andrea Antinori, Corraini;
2017
→ Un orso sullo stomaco / Bear with me, Corraini;
→ Filastrocche di vetro / Glass Rhymes, text by Sabina Italiano, Corraini;
→ Vacanze in balcone, text by Fulvia degl'Innocenti, Biancoenero;
→ L'inaugurazione del Poseidon, text by Davide Calì, Biancoenero;
2016
→ Quest’interrogativo che chiamiamo libreria / This unanswered question we call bookshop, Jorge Carriòn, Stories of Illywords;
Self-Publishing
2020
→ I want to go home;
2019
→ Appunti di bombing. Ovvero come fare i poster senza farsi arrestare;
2017
→ Ma Però, with Martina Tonello;
→ Blanca, with Eliana Albertini, Irene Coletto, Martina Tonello (from 2014);
credits
2022
→ Selected illustrator for exhibition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair;
2021
→ Cicla Award Best International Illustrated Book – China Shangai International Children’s Book Fair;
2020
→ Premio Orbil - Narrativa 6/10 with the book “I cuscini di magici” text by Evghenios Trivizàs, published by Camelozampa;
2019
→ Selected illustrators for Pitti Immagine Bimbo 89, in collaboration with BCBF;
→ Premio Letteratura Ragazzi di Cento with the book “I cuscini di magici” text by Evghenios Trivizàs, published by Camelozampa;
→ Selected illustrator for exhibition of Bologna Children’s Book Fair;
→ Selected illustrator for exhibition of 100 Outstanding Picturebooks curated by dPICTUS, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany;
2018
→ National award Nati per leggere;
→ Nominated Best Children’s Book by a Foreign Author, Amadora BD festival, Portugal;
2017
→ Winner Serpa International Award for Picturebooks, Planeta Tangerina;
2016
→ Nominated best selfpublishing with Blanca, TCBF, Treviso;
Personal Exhibitions and Art Residences
2022
→ Come mi piange il cuore, 121+, Milano;
2021
→ Come mi piange il cuore, Corraini MAMbo Artbookshop, Bologna;
→ Artistic residence La grammatica delle figure, Valle Camonica;
→ Artistic residence Numi Tutelari curated by Leccolimoni, Valfabbrica;
2019
→ Non l’abbiamo fatto apposta, with Andrea Antinori, TCBF, Treviso;
→ Era quasi tutto perfetto, with Stefano Colferai, 121+, Milano;
→ NON MI PIACE, with Martina Tonello, Officina Margherita, Bologna;
2017
→ Un orso sullo stomaco, Corraini MAMbo Artbookshop, Bologna;
2016
→ Artistic residence Bocs Art, Cosenza;
Exhibitions
2021
→ 1004100, RFI Gallery, Hamburg;
2020
→ Selve domestiche, Le Immagini della fantasia 38, Fondazione Štěpán Zavřel, Sarmede;
2019
→ Zine Library, RFI Gallery, Hamburg;
2018
→ Zooillogico, Le immagini della fantasia 36, Fondazione Štěpán Zavřel, Sarmede;
→ Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2020, Bologna;