

Gianni Rodari
Giovanni, a.k.a. Gianni, Rodari, was born in Omegna on 23 October 1920 and died in Rome on 14 April 1980. Rodari, renowned and appreciated for his fantasy stories, was also a great theorist of children's narrative. In his Grammatica della fantasia (Grammar of fantasy) he aimed to “find the consistent features of fantasy writing, the laws that invention still hasn't explored”, claiming the space that fantasy and imagination should have in everyone's life.