Your Own Voice · Catalog #3 2022

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From your Own Voice to an Illustrated Book International Online Workshop

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Summary From Your Own Voice to an Illustrated Book 5 Javier Zabala 7 Catalog #3 Aiello Pini, Federica 10 Carella, Serena 16 Cavallini, Valeria 22 Codutti, Paola 30 Erbilgiç, Merve 38 Garayoa, Sandra 46 Gelli, Lisa 54 Illarramendi, Iban 60 Isern, Carol 68 Landa, Eli 76 Maestro, Laura 82 Meischke, Hedie 86 Montanari, Iside 92 Novillo, Carla 98 Nuzzarello, Ermelinda 106 Pita, María José 112 Smith, Lesley Erica 120 Teixeira, Denise 126 Teuben, Corine 132 Van Noort, Margriet 140 Verhoeff, Nelleke 148 Yerga Acedo, David 158 Zamora Agg, Violeta 164 2

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De la voz propia al libro ilustrado

From Your Own Voice to an Illustrated Book

Taller internacional avanzado on line

International Online Advanced Workshop

Como ya os contamos en ediciones anteriores, este catálogo que estás viendo es la continuación de un proyecto que se inició en el año 2018 con dos ediciones de un curso al que llamamos “La Voz Propia” y que fueron un interesante camino para descubrir nuestra propia manera de interpretar el mundo gráficamente.

As we told you in previous editions, this catalogue you are looking at is the continuation of a project that began in 2018 with two editions of a workshop we called "Our Own Voice", which were an interesting way of discovering our own way of understanding the world graphically.

En ambas ediciones, los propios participantes nos plantearon la posibilidad de realizar un nuevo curso en el que trabajásemos en un proyecto real de libro ilustrado.

In both editions, the participants themselves suggested the possibility of a new workshop in which we would work on a real picture book project.

Lo primero era reconocer nuestra voz y solo después utilizarla para hacer nuestro proyecto personal.

The first thing was to recognise our voice and only then, use it to make our personal project.

De la voz propia al libro ilustrado es un proyecto de Laboratorio Emilia de Formación y La Casa Oblicua

Y así, surgió este curso online: “De la Voz Propia al Libro Ilustrado”, un curso internacional planteado como un proceso natural para avanzar paso a paso y desde nuestra propia voz en la ilustración editorial, ofreciendo a los profesionales de hoy los recursos, técnicas, información y conocimientos necesarios para lograr crear un proyecto libro de calidad y que pueda así mismo tener un lugar en el mercado editorial internacional.

And so, this online course was born: "From your own voice to an illustrated book", an international course designed as a natural process to advance step by step and from our own voice in publishing illustration, offering today's professionals the resources, techniques, information and knowledge necessary to create a quality book project that can also have a place in the international publishing market.

From your Own Voice to an Illustrated Book is a project of Laboratorio Emilia de Formación and La Casa Oblicua

Y, además, quisimos enriquecer el talento de los participantes potenciando en ellos la máxima libertad creativa.

In addition, we wanted to enrich the talent of the participants by giving them the greatest possible creative freedom.

Algunos de los participantes en el curso ya tenían en mente un proyecto personal que querían realizar, otros eligieron revisar un clásico. Y también invitamos a nuestro proyecto a dos grandes escritoras y amigas, Victoria Pérez Escrivá y Eva Manzano, que pusieron a disposición de los participantes en el curso ocho magníficos textos para trabajar con ellos.

Some of the workshop participants already had a personal project in mind that they wanted to produce, others chose to revisit a classic. And we also invited two great writers and friends to our project, Victoria Pérez Escrivá and Eva Manzano, who provided the course participants with eight wonderful texts to work with.

Y hubo tanto interés entre los participantes que los ocho textos se agotaron enseguida. Y entonces la pandemia nos encontró haciendo este curso.

And there was so much interest among the participants that the eight texts were quickly used up. And then the pandemic found us doing this course.

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March 2022 Los derechos de las imágenes pertenecen a sus autores.

The rights of the images belong to their authors.

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Ya hemos dicho que el curso fue online, pero aún así (o quizás precisamente por esto…) habíamos programado dos momentos para conocernos personalmente y trabajar juntos unos días: - El primero fue en mi estudio de Madrid, que sí se realizó. Y aunque ya no todos los que quisieron pudieron acudir, fue muy entrañable e interesante.

- El segundo encuentro no se produjo. Se planteó este encuentro presencial en la Feria de Bolonia de 2020, para revisar los proyectos acabados, ver los posibles cambios en persona y también conocernos los que no habíamos podido hacerlo antes. Pero como sabemos, se aplazó la Feria y alargamos también el curso.

We have already said that the workshop was online, but even so (or perhaps just because of this...) we had scheduled two moments to get to know each other personally and work together for a few days: - The first one was in my studio in Madrid, which did take place. And although not everyone who wanted to could attend it, it was still very interesting and intimate.

- The second meeting did not take place. This face-to-face meeting was planned for the 2020 Bologna Fair, to review the finished projects, to see the possible changes in person and also to meet those of us who had not been able to do so before. But as we know, the Fair was postponed and we also extended the course.

Nos dimos más tiempo para trabajar en los proyectos y seguimos manteniendo la reunión en las nuevas fechas de la Feria de Bolonia, que finalmente no se celebró aquel año. Y vivimos todos este periodo extraño, como suspendido en el tiempo.

We gave ourselves more time to work on the projects and we continued to meet on the new dates of the Bologna Fair, which in the end did not take place that year. And we all lived through this strange period, as if suspended in time.

Toda la industria cultural se aletargó. Así que decidimos que lanzaríamos el catálogo cuando la actividad editorial se normalizara un poco. Y por esto, y porque creemos que es también un poco de la justicia poética que nos regala a veces la vida, hemos decidido presentar este catálogo, y sus magníficos resultados, en este momento, dos años más tarde.

Justo cuando todo vuelve a empezar.

The whole cultural industry went to a standstill. So, we decided that we would launch the catalogue when the publishing activity returned to normal. And because of this, and because we believe it is also a bit of poetic justice that life sometimes gives us, we have decided to present this catalogue, and its wonderful results, at this moment, two years later. Just when everything is starting again.

Mil gracias a todos los participantes del curso por la gran pasión, enorme trabajo y aportaciones, que nos sirvieron de apoyo, guía y motivación constante a lo largo del proceso. Y añadir que en estos dos años de pandemia algunos de estos proyectos ya se han publicado o han obtenido premios importantes, lo cual nos ha hecho casi tan felices como a los propios autores.

Thanks to all the participants of the workshop for their immense passion, hard work and contributions, which gave us constant support, guidance and motivation throughout the process. And something else to add: in these two years of pandemic, some of these projects have already been published or have won important awards, which has made us almost as happy as the authors themselves.

Y finalmente, os dejo con los proyectos de estos artistas, ya todos amigos nuestros. Nos sentimos orgullosos de todos ellos, de su evolución y de su generoso esfuerzo.

And finally, I leave you with the projects of these artists, all of whom are now friends of ours. We are proud of all of them, of their evolution and their generous effort.

Un abrazo. ¡Nos vemos en la Feria!

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See you at the Fair!

Javier Zabala Estudió Ilustración y Diseño Gráfico en las Escuelas de Artes

He studied Illustration and Graphic Design in the Arts

de Oviedo y Madrid.

Schools of Oviedo and Madrid.

Ha ilustrado más de 85 libros, de algunos de los cuales tam-

He has illustrated more than 85 books, some of them also

bién es el autor del texto. Ha publicado con algunas de las

written by himself. He has published with some of the most

más prestigiosas editoriales del mundo y sus libros han sido

prestigious publishers around the world and his books have

traducidos a 20 idiomas.

been translated into 20 languages.

Ha ilustrado textos de Cervantes, Shakespeare, García Lorca,

He has illustrated texts by Cervantes, Shakespeare, García

Rodari, Melville, Chejov, Van Gogh, Benedetti, Neruda…

Lorca, Rodari, Melville, Chejov, Van Gogh, Benedetti, Neruda...

En la actualidad, una parte importante de su actividad profe-

Currently, he carries out an important part of his professional

sional se desarrolla como profesor. Ha impartido cursos de

activity as a teacher. He has taught illustration courses and

ilustración y conferencias en universidades y escuelas de arte

given lectures in universities and art schools in Spain, Italy,

en España, Italia, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Irán, Cuba,

Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, Is-

Brasil, Venezuela, Israel, Singapur, Croacia, Portugal, Chile,

rael, Singapore, Croatia, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, France,

Argentina, Francia, Malasia, Rusia, China…

Malaysia, Russia, China…

Su obra ha sido mostrada en numerosas exposiciones indivi-

His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibi-

duales y colectivas por todo el mundo.

tions all over the world.

Entre sus numerosos galardones destacan el Premio Nacional

His numerous awards include the 2005 National Illustration

de Ilustración 2005 y dos Menciones de Honor de los Premios

Prize and two Honorable Mentions of the Bologna Internatio-

de la Feria Internacional de Bolonia en 2005 y 2008. Además,

nal Children´s Books Fair Awards in 2005 and 2008. In addi-

ha sido finalista del Premio Andersen 2012 y candidato por

tion, he was a finalist of the 2012 Andersen Prize and

España al Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) 2015.

candidate for Spain at the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award

También en 2015 recibió una Manzana de Oro en la Bienal de

(ALMA) in 2015. Also in 2015, he received a Golden Apple at

Bratislava y en 2016 obtuvo la Golden Medal of Times Illus-

the Bratislava Biennial and in 2016 the Golden Medal of

tration Book Award 2016, China.

Times Illustration Book Award 2016, China.

En el 2021 ha sido el artista invitado en la exposición indivi-

In 2021 he has been the guest artist in the solo exhibition of

dual de la Bienal Ilustrarte 2021 que se acaba de inaugurar en

the Biennial Ilustrarte 2021 which opened in January 2022

Enero de 2022 debido a la pandemia.

due to the pandemic.

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Sobre Javier Zabala

About Javier Zabala

Javier Zabala es un ilustrador caracterizado por la mezcla de

Javier Zabala is an illustrator characterized by the mixture of

elementos y el expresionismo aplicado al libro infantil. Nin-

elements and expressionism applied to children's books.

guno de sus trabajos deja indiferente, provocando un descu-

None of his works leave you indifferent, provoking a conti-

brimiento continuo de elementos que enriquecen el texto con

nuous discovery of elements that enrich the text with his

su lenguaje vanguardista y pictórico. Cada uno de sus libros

avant-garde and pictorial language. Each of his books is diffe-

es diferente, nunca repite modelos, pero aún así hay algo que

rent, he never repeats models, but still there is something that

los mantiene unidos.

holds them together.

Rafa Vivas

Rafa Vivas

Director del Máster Iconi

Director of the Master Iconi

Durante su brillante carrera como ilustrador, Javier ha tenido

During his brilliant career as an illustrator, Javier has under-

que enfrentarse sin duda a trabajos complejos: desde las ilus-

taken undoubtedly complex works: from the illustrations of

traciones de Don Quijote hasta las de Santiago de García Lorca

Don Quixote, to those for Santiago by García Lorca (for

(por las que obtuvo una Mención de Honor en la Feria del

which he obtained the Mention of Honour at the Bologna

Libro de Bolonia), y la ilustración de Hamlet de Shakespeare

Book Fair), to the illustration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for

para adultos. Entre otros, ha ilustrado historias de Melville y

adults. Amongst others, he has illustrated stories by Melville

Rodari. Digamos que se ha asegurado de cubrir casi todas las

and Rodari. Let’s say he’s made sure to cover almost all pos-

experiencias posibles. Probablemente no tenga muchas dudas

sible experiences! He probably doesn’t have much hesitation

a la hora de asumir nuevos desafíos. Esta es una actitud que

when it’s time to take up new challenges; this is an attitude I

personalmente aprecio mucho, porque es sintomático de una

personally appreciate very much, because it’s symptomatic of

fuerte voluntad de seguir evolucionando, investigando y estu-

a strong will to keep evolving, researching, and studying, so-

diando, algo que un profesional, en mi humilde opinión,

mething a professional, in my humble opinion, should never

nunca debería abandonar. Aunque unidos por un hilo conduc-

abandon. Though united by a thread that resides in his sensi-

tor que reside en su sensibilidad, su visión del mundo y en la

tivity, his vision of the world, and in the ability with which

capacidad con la que logra transferir todo eso a imágenes,

he gets to transfer those into images, adapting the language

adaptando el lenguaje de acuerdo con la audiencia a la que se

according to the audience he’s addressing, all his books are

dirige, todos sus libros son diferentes.

different.

Cristiana Clerici

Cristiana Clerici

Especialista en libros ilustrados

Specialist on pictures books

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Farewells Federica Aiello Pini

Writer Victoria Pérez Escrivá Summary A different way of thinking about farewells.

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Federica Aiello Pini, born in Parma, Italy, in 1980.

She studied art at Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna and Illustration in Florence. She was then selected for the Masterclass in Visual Art and Design Segni d’acqua at the Venice Bienniale.

She was featured in the Saatchi Gallery Top 10 in 2007 and won the Italian national contest Artefatta in 2008.

Over the course of her career, she has explored and developed her research through live performances, which led her to be invited as visitor professor to the ESAD (Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático) in 2013.

She exhibits in Italy, France, Germany, Holland, UK, Spain, Portugal, USA, Panama and Colombia.

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When I was crazy Serena Carella

Writer Luigi Pirandello Summary Novel belonging to the corpus "Novelle per un anno", was published for the first time in 1902. It is the story of Fausto Bandini, a sharp middle-aged man who presents himself saying that he is now sane but until a few years before he was crazy. It quickly becomes clear that what he calls "madness" is nothing more than the judgment of others on his way of looking at the world: empathetic, generous and in strong connection with nature, which often becomes the mirror of his inner world. Being healthy, on the contrary, means having a dull and selfish mentality. Fausto lives in a constant but apparent conflict between these two realities.

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Serena Carella was born in Naples, Italy, in 1974. I am an architect but in the last two or three years I have started to dedicate all my free time to drawing. At first it was a fun pastime, then, with the courses of Laboratorio Emilia and Javier Zabala, drawing became a daily need for me and I wanted to go further, until this book: the first time I experimented, researched, explored, clashing with my inexperience and its limits, strongly wishing to overcome them.

Before these courses, in 2018 I participated in a competition ('That's a Mole') in the city of Turin, to create a symbolic image of the Mole Antonelliana, in which I was selected as a finalist.

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After the fog Valeria Verdevolpe Cavallini

Writer Valeria Verdevolpe Cavallini Summary A without-name character lives in a tidy, simple world. But suddenly, one day a deep, huge fog arrives and erases everything he knows. The fog lasts for quite a lot of time, and the character gets used to live in that unshaped world. When the fog disappears, the world around the character has completely change: it's now full of unknown colors and shapes. Exploring this new world, the character himself canoes his shape and his perception of reality.

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Valeria Cavallini was born in 1988, in the foggy and flat Emilian countryside. I've always loved books, stories and brushes, so I graduated in Illustration at Bologna's Fine Art's Academy.

I'am deeply interested in each element that participate to compose the narration: besides illustration, I also write stories and realize hand-printed and bound books.

I'am currently studying at Bottega Finzioni, a specializing school in writing and screenplaying.

Non so quanto sia durata: un’era geologica, o un battito esatto di cuore.

Abbastanza, comunque, da rendermi familiare la nebbia.

Confortevole, quasi.

I work as an illustrator and author for different kinds of commissions.

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Ma non era il mondo di prima.

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E nemmeno io ero l’io di prima.

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dalle forme è emersa, lucente, una strada: non sapevo dove portasse, ma non ho potuto fare a meno di imboccarla

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Farewells Paola Codutti

Writer Victoria Pérez Escrivá Summary A poetic and modern reinterpretation of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

Despedidas Victoria Pérez Escriva Paola Codutti

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Paola Codutti was born in Italy in 1976. In 2000 she started illustrating.

- 2001: degree in restoration of frescoes at the U.I.A., Venice.

- 2005: special mention in the competition “Find the recipe using the wand”.

- 2010:”An Dan Dest” (Sinnos Editrice).

- 2016: “Ambarabà”, curated by Chiara Carminati and Giovanna Pezzetta.

She attended workshops held by Javier Zabala, Jozef Wilkon and Linda Wolfsgruber.

Pero algo le dijo que lo volvería a encontrar

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A veces decimos adiós

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The Nose Merve Erbilgiç

Writer Nikolai Gogol Summary This story tells the tale of a man named Kovalev who wakes up one morning without his nose. Normally Kovalev loves to flirt, prides himself on his rank and title, and thinks very highly of his physical appearance. Without his nose, he struggles with low self-esteem and shame.

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Merve Erbilgiç (1988) is an Istanbul born illustrator. Since 2017, she has been producing projects in the field of contemporary illustration for books, magazines, posters, exhibitions and personal projects. She has also been organizing workshops for children and adults in Turkey.

After her university studies in the field of Communication and Marketing, Merve started her art education at “Illustrative Today Studio” in İstanbul (2015). At the same time period, she founded her own studio and started working as a freelance illustrator. Between 2017 and 2018, she took advanced courses at ''Scuola d'Illustrazione di Sarmede'' in Italy. Merve has participated in collective exhibitions in Turkey and Italy. In 2018, her fist book project ‘Bazı Kuşlar Uçtu’ published by Nesin Publishing in Turkey. In 2019, her personal-project ‘The Quest’ was mentioned for the Award of Honor in First International Edelvives Illustration Award. The artist continues to work in her studio in Istanbul.

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Farewell Sandra Garayoa

Writer Victoria Pérez Escrivá

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Sandra Garayoa (Donostia San Sebastián, 1993). Graduated in graphic design and illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona.

She has worked in different fields of illustration such as children's and young literature, creating covers for music groups and developing posters for films. At the moment she is immersed in several picturebook projects.

Winner of Etxepare Picturebook Awards (Navarra, 2020), finalist in the 'future creators' category of the Junceda Awards (Barcelona, 2018) and first prize in the general category of the Eva Toldrá Illustration Awards (Olot, 2017).

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Eva Manzano Plaza Lisa Gelli

Why not?

WHY NOT?

Lisa Gelli

Writer Eva Manzano Summary The simple idea from which I started for everything is the famous concept of the glass half empty and half full, in history I felt this, nothing is impossible if you look at the glass half full! That's why one of the characters that seem impossible, the pirate siren, becomes the protagonist of the story.

The story is a bit "cyclical", there are phrases that repeat themselves, phrases that say "why not" period. I thought of inserting total black pages to emphasize these negativity passages and, in the same time I used my strong pictorial sign to value the half full glass found in this darkness.

I was surprised to have already done most of the work in the study phase, I found here my glass half full!

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Complete book in English

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Or be a pirate with a mermaid's tail?

Lisa Gelli is an Italian illustrator based in Italy. Born in 1983; she graduated in Graphic Design and Fashion Photography (2007) and she was selected for the Master in Illustration “Ars in Fabula”(2010).

Since 2012, she has regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, in Italy and abroad.

She is now working as a graphic designer for a large toy company, as well as a freelance visual designer. At the same time, she is also carrying out her research in illustration and publishing, by editing both the written text and the illustrations of various book-projects.

Lisa organizes and is co-art director of Ratatà, festival of comics, illustration and self-publishing in Macerata since 2014.

She is part of the group illustration Le Vanvere.

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To talk to those who are not here

and to those who are too?

And the other way around?

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Things that happen Iban Iluna

Writer Eva Manzano Summary Cosas que pasan is a story about solidarity and meteors.

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Eva Manzano iban iluna

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Iban Illarramendi, born in Zarautz (Spain) in 1973. He draws since he was a child and formed in Graphic Design.

He attended workshops with illustrators he admires such as Javier Zabala, Isidro Ferrer, Katsumi Komagata or Elena Odriozola.

Currently working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer mostly for publishing and education world.

He works with both traditional and digital techniques.

He has begun to complement his work by doing experimental illustration workshops with children.

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Cuando alguno pica en el anzuelo,

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¡Soltaros pececitos, hoy no he salido a pescar!

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Y el meteorito les grita con su voz mineral y lejana:

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Rubaiyat

Omar Kheyyam Carol Isern

Carol Isern

29 rubaiyat

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Carol Isern Omar Kheyyam

Summary Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to the persian poet Omar Khayyam (1048–1131).

This selection of 29 rubaiyat offers a distilled view of the author's main themes. The fundamental allegorical figure in the poems is wine. The quatrains are a thread of small reflections on the futility of life, human ignorance, the importance of love and the celebration of life, the benefits of drunkenness and the joy of eroticism. Khayyam has had a spiritual interpretation in the East, close to the sufism of the time, while the West has read his poemas as a gnostic celebration of life.

29 Rubaiyat

Writer Omar Khayyám

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Carol Isern (Badalona, 1967) studied philology at Universitat de Barcelona. In her twenties she started painting on her own until she began studying in painter Ortuño’s studio. Afterwards she studied Graphic Design at Escola Massana and Illustration at Escola Eina, and worked for a short while as an assistant in the studio of the painter Gino Rubert. During this period, she made illustrations for some publishing houses, including: Enciclopèdia Salvat, Punto de Lectura, Ediciones B and The New York Press, among others.

She participated in the collective exhibition La Santa 2002 (Barcelona) and in 28 Hipermerc’art 2011 (Barcelona). From 2012 her small-format works can be found in Carré d’Artistes, and in 2015 she had her first solo exhibition at Dieu, moviment creatiu (Cadaqués).

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Levántate y olvida este efímero mundo.

Alégrate; aprovecha cada instante de gozo.

Si Natura, mujer al fin, fuese constante, ¿no te habría llegado de ser querido el turno?

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13 Desprecia el corazón que no ama la belleza.

Repugnante es el ser carente de pasiones.

Indigno es él del sol que alumbra, y de ese beso con que suele aplacar nuestras penas la luna.

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3 23 Joven, dame la jarra que está llena de vino de color de amapola. Derrame por sus bordes Joven, dame la jarra que está llena de vino la sangre que contiene, pues no he tenido nunca de color de amapola. Derrame por sus bordes otro amigo más fiel y mejor que mi copa. la sangre que contiene, pues no he tenido nunca otro amigo más fiel y mejor que mi copa.

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Bebe, pues no hallarás momento más propicio.

La luna ha desgarrado ya el manto de la noche.

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Mantente alegre, porque durante mucho tiempo ha de brillar la luna sobre nuestros sepulcros.

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The swamp Eli Landa

Writer Alberto Pocasangre Summary In this swamp lives a big, green and slimy monster.

He is grumpy and has no friends.

He fell madly in love when he met a biologist who came to the swamp to collect samples of water and moss from her scientific research.

You can imagine how a big, green and slimy monster expresses this love when he loves at first sight with a biologist.

He could not stop thinking about her and giving her all kind of special samples of love.

If you want to know how this monstrous love story ends you will have to sit and open this book to discover by yourself.

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Y fue el amor.

Eli Landa was born in San Sebastián (Spain) in 1965 and I live in El Salvador almost 30 years ago.

I studied a Master in International Cooperation for Development and a Master in Children Books Illustration (i con i, 2008). I combine both interests and sometimes they come together when working to promote rights in favor of vulnerable populations.

I am the author of several illustrated books as the author of texts, illustrations or both of them. So far, nine of them have been published.

I am also involved in promoting Literature for Children and Youth people in El Salvador and Central America.

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Sin embargo, ese ruido que lo ha despertado viene molestándolo desde hace unos días. Es como un chapoteo.

Como si un tonto pato ha tenido la ingeniosa idea de ir a nadar en el lodazal. La sola idea de un pato molesta y pone hambriento al monstruo verde del pantano verde, así que sube con más rapidez pero con infinitos cuidados de no ser descubierto por el presunto pato invasor, ni de recibir un baño de luz que sería su ruina.

Asoma los ojos viscosas y enormes por debajo de un nenúfar y a través de la rendija de sus pupilas, la ve: la bióloga más bonita y agraciada que jamás un monstruo verde de un pantano verde ha visto en su larga y verde vida. Y es el amor a primera vista. De esos amores que de inmediato se insinúan grandes y tremendos. Dignos de hacer nacer una poesía.

Al monstruo verde –quien nunca ha comido poetas y menos los ha leído- le parece entonces que los juncos silvestres son estrellas y que la pestilencia del pantano es el aroma a rosas más tierno.

No sabe qué oculta fuerza le obliga a acercarse y no soporta el impulso. Así que se acerca a la orilla.

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Farewells Laura Maestro

Writer Victoria Pérez Escrivá Summary Two friends have to say goodbye at a train station... This little story talks about friendship, about how the paths of life sometimes separate us from our loved ones, but love and friendship last despite the difficulties.

Un hombre se despidió de un amigo en una estación de trenes

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Despedidas Laura Maestro was born in Madrid in 1978. She studies Psychology and Applied Arts in the Sculpture. After her motherhood se leaves the city and moves to a little village. Then she connects again with her drawing passion. Since then, she envisages the possibility of creating storytelling images. She then begins to be self-taugth in illustration, creating her own plastic language.

She is interested both in the beauty of an image, and the concept idea behind this image.

Some of her commissions: - Covers a inner illustrations for the magazine “Cuentos para el andén”.

- Several pieces for the theatre company “Primigenius” highlighting four fabric with illustrated Medieval Romances.

- The personal serie: “Mujeres que habitan la fiera” has been exposed in several places along the Community of Madrid.

Actually she is working in several personal projects for illustrated album.

Victoria Pérez Escrivá Laura Maestro

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Rinaldo's voice Hedie Meischke

Writer Hedie Meischke Summary Four brothers and a big black horse: an image from an old Flemish folktale that was stuck in my head. But that is just the setting. The story is about an introvert, dreamy child in a loud, opiniated family. Horse is the wisest, the caretaker. The brothers are noisy, each in his own way. They are not bad, they want to help Rinaldo. Each in his own way. Rinaldo is trying to fit in, but he misses an inner connection. Luckily, there is a place where it is quiet and full of beauty, where he can hear his own heart. It’s called nature. And with the help of Horse the brothers realize that Rinaldo is just fine the way he is. Actually, he is great.

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Hedie Meischke, grew up in The Hague (Netherlands), where I studied at the Royal Academy of Arts. I did projects for the Children’s Library, such as designing posters, flyers and booklets. When I moved to the countryside I became an illustrator of nature magazines and also worked as a translator/subtitler. Now I hope to make picture books, because that has been my true love from childhood on. For Rinaldo’s Voice I got a honorable mention in the Picture This! Contest.

To make art I need to feel a connection with my subject and I am always very happy when someone else is touched by what I’ve made. I like to keep it light, but with a deeper layer. And always full of hope and humor.

I mix all sorts of media: stencil technique, collage, stamping, charcoal, pastel, ink, paint. I have an antique cupboard that is decorated with very old wallpaper. It’s slowly coming off in flaps, hanging down like a torn curtain. It’s on every page of the Rinaldo book.

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Treasure Island Iside Montanari

Writer Robert Louis Stevenson Summary The protagonist of this adventure novel (set in the 18th century) is Jim Hawkins, a young boy, son of the owners of an Inn called "Admiral Benbow" located in a small village on the English coast. One day, an old captain named Billy Bones arrives at the Inn and mysteriously takes lodging there. From that day on, Jim's life took an unexpected direction.The discovery of a mysterious map, the onslaught of pirates, a treasure to find, a mysterious one-legged sailor and the long journey to the island where the treasure is hidden are only the initial ingredients to tell the most exciting and overwhelming adventure that young Jim would have ever thought to live.

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Iside Montanari was born in Ravenna (Italy) in 1982. She graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna (Italy). She begins her interest in illustration while working in a Children's Library and starts attending illustration classes to introduce herself in this world and to find her way of expression through it.

She lives and work in Ravenna.

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The bed Carla Novillo

Writer Eva Manzano Summary There was a bed in a railway station. Not that it was common for beds to come out there, because they used to be very reserved. They normally ate fluff and spent most of their lives in one place. But some had reached the university. This bed did not want to go very far, because she liked her home.

Let's say it had escaped for a short time. A little excursion...

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Carla Novillo born in Madrid, where she lives. She currently works as a 2D and 3D illustrator and animator, a computer applications teacher, and a designer of multimedia teaching materials, publishing educational manuals. She gets the Aspid Award for Creativity and Communication.

She began her artistic training with the painter Javier Pamplona.

Graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, she is in her final year at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. She continues her artistic training working in the studio of the visual artist Paloma Navares.

In addition to various illustration workshops, she conducts advanced Illustrated Album workshops with the illustrator and writer Álex Meléndez at Escuela Superior de Dibujo Profesional ESDIP and with the illustrator Javier Zabala at LAB Emilia and La Casa Oblicua.

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Farewells The Child Born With Wings Ermelinda Nuzzarello Writer Victoria Pérez Escriva Summary The story of the child born with wings tells us of the need to explore beyond the limits we find in our family environment, beyond its prophecies, its fears and often its limiting beliefs. The wings are the symbol of this ability of children to explore beyond these boundaries, to grow, to overcome their parents and their fears. But often society and their own loved ones do not accept this way of life, requiring it to adapt to conventions.

The delicate story of Victoria Pérez Escrivá, caresses the limit between family loyalty and personal freedom, in search of a balance between affection and self-determination.

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Ermelinda Nuzzarello, graduated in 2004 in Set Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, I worked as set designer, cultural animator, acrobatic dressmaker and toy maker.

In 2013, inspired by the need to experiment new forms of expression, I moved my first steps between image and narration, as a self-taught illustrator, attending courses and workshops.

I collaborate with associations and develop personal projects, participating in collective and individual exhibitions. In 2015 and 2017 I was a finalist at the 8th and 10th International Meeting of Illustration in S. João da Madeira, Portugal.

I mix inks, acrylics, collages, watercolors, pastels, graphite and not disdain coffee, turmeric, chocolate, walks in busy and solitary places.

I research, through my work, the possibility of creating visual resonance boxes, freeing imaginary worlds to explore individually and collectively spaces of emotional expansion.

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Grandma Spider Illustrated Alphabet María José Pita

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Writer María José Pita Summary The illustration that gives rise to this book was selected for the catalog Your Own Voice 1. Two years later, María furthered her graphic research using India ink spots, color and monotype.

Grandma Spider becomes a character and accompanies her in the challenge of weaving a story through an illustrated alphabet. This ABC transcends the idea of a merely informative book and, surrounded by a non-sense atmosphere, describes the creative impulse of an artist, a child, or a Grandma Spider at play. A poetic and "brave" book, in Javier's words, open enough to reach an audience from 0 to 100 years old.

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abalíes coleccionistas María José Pita was born in 1979 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

She is an architect, writer and illustrator. From 2012 to 2016 she lived in Brazil. There, she studied literature and illustration and furthered in the study of picture books and graphic experimentation. Back to Uruguay, with her illustration “Salto lanar”, she received a mention in the Third Edition of Award for Illustrators of Children's and Young Adult’s Books. She also made illustrations for the children's furniture brand “PiPa, mi mundo chiquito” and fiction illustrations for “Lento” Magazine and audiocuento.com.ar. In 2019 she published her first children's picture book “Ainda não, ainda nunca” (text by Chris Ritchie) * the brazilian publisher Quase Oito. Recently her picture book “A qué huele el amarillo?” was awarded at Fondos Concursables para la Cultura and it will be published in 2020 in Uruguay.

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The Holy Land Lesley Erica Smith

Writer Alda Merini Summary I started this project intending to illustrate various poems by the Italian Poetess Alda Merini. I started with La Terra Santa but it became evident to me that this was more than just a single poem, it was a story in itself, and so the book became La Terra Santa. The poem was written during a traumatic period when Alda Merini was in a mental institution.

There are many metaphoric allusions to the Holy Land from the Bible. There is one reference where she describes the mass of inmates as birds scurrying towards the Mass. From here I was inspired to create the personalities in the form of birds for my illustrations. I hope that I have expressed the sentiments of this beautiful poem.

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Lesley Erica Smith, I am British born, London 1965, but have been living in Tuscany, Italy for 17 years. I have an 11 year old son and my main business here has been working with tourists who come to the area. I have no formal art training, although I have attended various workshops around the world for photography, which has been my artistic outlet and second profession since I was a teenager. I have always loved dabbling in various other art forms throughout the years. I was drawn towards illustration since early 2019, following the online course Your Own Voice with Javier in early 2019. As a complete beginner to illustrations and bookmaking it was a long hard process but I am proud of what I accomplished.

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Hansel and Gretel Denise Teixeira

Writer Brothers Grimm Summary Hansel and Gretel is a German fairy tale collected for the first time by the Grimm brothers. In the story the two brothers are left in the forest to die by their own parents because they didn't have enough food for everyone. When they try to leave the forest they find a house made of candies or at least that's what they thought, but in fact it was the house of a very bad witch who wanted to eat them. More than a children's story, the tale speaks of our darkest fears, it speaks of scarcity, lack of love, lack of perspective and hunger. To survive, Hansel and Gretel need to support each other, kill their fears and get out of the forest. Will they still be the same after that as before?

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Denise Teixeira born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1972. She graduated in architecture from Universidade Santa Úrsula in 1996 and in Graphic Design from Centro Universitário da Cidade in 2005. In 2009 she completed a post-graduate course in visual arts, culture and creation at Senac Rio. Since then, she has intensified her studies as an illustrator and visual artist. Currently, she works as a graphic designer and illustrator in her studio.

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Narcissus Corine Teuben

Writer Ovid Summary (Somewhere in Greece..)

Narcissus is a boy of incredible beauty. His parents want to protect him from anyone who wants his love because he is so beautiful. But he becomes deeply unhappy from anyone staring at him and wanting his love. He therefore walks with his head down to cover his face from the outside world.

But one day he sees himself in the reflecting water.

And falls completely in love with this boy he sees in the water.

Meanwhile Echo, a nymph, has arrived in the woods nearby the water and sees the irresistibly beautiful Narcissus. She falls madly in love. But Narcissus doesn't want to know anything about her, because he is only in love with his own reflection. Slowly Narcissus fades away and dies.

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Corine Teuben is an illustrator and graphic designer who lives and works in Utrecht.

Illustration is for her an inspiring and expressive way of telling feelings, emotions and stories, by playing with different techniques, textures and materials.

Corine is inspired by daily subjects and stories in life. Precisely those things, details, emotions, rituals and forms are so ordinary, but often so indispensable, present in everyday life.

After graduating from the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht in graphic design, she worked for a number of years as a graphic designer for a design agency and publishing house specialized in book designs about artists, for art historians and museums.

After that she worked as an independent illustrator and graphic designer, which she still does today.

She describes her work as poetic, narrative, conceptual, sensitive and powerful.

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The Kiss Margriet van Noort

Writer Anton Chekhov Summary One evening in May, a group of officers is invited for dinner at the house of a retired general.

During that evening the shy officer Rabovich strays into a dark room where, by mistake, an unrecognizable woman gives him a passionate kiss. And with this kiss, Rabovich immediately starts fantasizing romantically about the beauty and identity of this woman.

The next day the officers leave the area and over time these vibrant fantasies start to dominate Rabovich’s life. In late August he returns to the house, which looks dark and deserted, with rough towels hanging at the bathing’s cabin. Suddenly Rabovich realizes that his fantasies were false and his hope turns to bitterness about his fate.

When the general’s invitation comes, he refuses.

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Margriet van Noort was born in the Netherlands (1961) where she studied Interior Design in Amsterdam.

Since 2008 she has made illustrations for several children’s picture books as well as for television and magazines.

She gets inspired by many things, but mostly by observing characters of people and animals and how they go through their day to day life.

This fascination brought her to the work of Chekhov, of whom she became a great admirer.

It was therefore a challenging and exciting choice for Margriet to illustrate Chekhov's short story "The Kiss" for this project and create an illustrated album for adults.

Margriet works with mixed media techniques on paper but has a strong preference for applying the stencil technique, which she occasionally enriches with broken ink lines.

Sometimes in a nonchalant way but also with a more controlled use of the stencil technique she creates graphical, narrative compositions and expressive characters.

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Rose-red day Nelleke Verhoeff

Writer Nelleke Verhoeff Summary Rosered day' is a story about life, love, loss, grief and happiness.

King Balthazar is bored and takes an unknown path to broaden his world. This leads him to Prinses Rose-red.

They fell in love and King Balthazar takes her and her beautiful color to his country.

The people love her. She brings color and happiness in their lives.

Till that terrible accident. Prinses Rose-red dies.

King Balthazar is unconsolable.

He locks himself in his castle. After some month of grief, he finds a photo of his Rose-red and he realizes she is still here.

In his mind and in the minds of his people. From then on everyday is Rose-red day!

The color and hapiness come back again!

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Nelleke Verhoeff, artist / illustrator from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She started her professional career as a theaterperformer and made physical and visual theater using circus techniques and masks.

Nelleke then discovered her love for drawing, painting and digital art. She is mostly inspired by people and animals and loves to watch their attitudes and facial expressions. Since 2015 she has illustrated several books.

Her work was selected for the Ilustrarte 2016 exhibition in Lissabon in Portugal. In 2017 she won the Worldwide Picturebook Illustration Competition 'Picture This' and she was one of the finalists in the Silent Book Contest 2018 with her book 'Concerto'.

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King Balthazar is tired of it!

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Birds are singing unknown songs.

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From now on every day is Rose-red day in our country! king Balthazar shouts.

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The eagle that did not want to fly David Yerga Writer James Aggrey Summary The eagle that did not want to fly is a beautiful parable of human existence, individual and collective, when it is limited by the expectations of the environment and that can be applied to a wide variety of personal, social and historical situations. The author of the text is James Aggrey, a writer from Ghana who died in 1927.

The story tells of an eagle captured by a man when he was a baby and locked in a chicken coop. For five years he lived with the chickens until he came to believe one of them and forgot what constitutes the most intimate of his essence, among other customs, that of flight.

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David Yerga Acedo, was born in Pamplona (Navarra) Spain (1974).

Studies: - 1999 Master of Graphic Design CEU San Pablo, Valencia - 1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts, UCLM, Cuenca - 1994 Artistic Baccalaureate, School of Applied Arts and Artistic Trades n2, Madrid Workshops with: Javier Zabala, Victoria Semykina, Ricardo Cabolo, Guim Tió, Manuel Granell, Paco Bascuñan, Marisa Gallen, Nacho Lavernia, Typerware, Jiri G Dokoupil, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Manuel Quejido, Rob Scholte, Aldo Lacobelli, Chema Cobo, Juan Ugalde, Rogelio Lopez Cuenca Main awards and recognitions: - 2014-2015-2016 Top 10 child apps in Spain, Festival de Comunicación El Chupete - 2015 Prize Winner, Digital Ehon Award (Japan) - 2013 BolognaRagazzi Digital Award (Italia) - 2013 DADA Company, 2º Winner of the SeedRocket, Campus for Entrepreneurs - 2005 ANUARIA Award, to the best National Poster of 2005.

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The White Cat Violeta Zamora Agg

Writer Madame d’Aulnoy Summary It tells the story of an aging king who is unwilling to give up his kingdom. He fears his sons might be plotting against him which inspires him to design a plan to keep his sons busy and away from the throne.

The king calls upon the three princes to set them a challenge, he deceitfully promises that whoever wins the challenge will inherit the crown.

The story then focuses solely on the journey of the youngest prince who gets lost on his quest. He lands at the doors of a magical castle ruled by a white cat. The young prince receives the cat’s help in winning the series of challenges set by the king who tries to delay the inevitable.

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Violeta Zamora Agg. I’m an independent illustrator born in San José, Costa Rica.

Before I was an illustrator I was a media producer and journalist, working in the Art Department for audiovisual productions and radio productions for advertising.

In 2015 I enrolled in an illustrated course at Bournemouth Arts University in the UK. Over the years I have had the fortune to participate in diverse online courses focused on narrative illustration for children picture books with experienced illustrators and art directors from the USA, UK and Europe.

In 2018 I became a finalist of the first edition of the WriteNow Contest from Penguin Random House UK aimed to highlight upcoming illustrators for children’s books from unrepresented backgrounds.

I have also included writing to my illustration practice. I been working on two of my stories for children’s picture books and I have also been exploring the autobiographical graphic novel as a tool to express my personal views of the world.

I live by the sea in a small UK town.

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From your Own Voice to an Illustrated Book

Videos, tutorials, analysis documentation and teacher forums

International Online Advanced Workshop The text

Review of the work done

(2 weeks) Illustrated book vs. illustrated album. Differences. Minimum necessary characteristics for a text to be used in an illustrated album.

(2 weeks) Choice of the cover. Editorial graphic design. Layout. Pagination. Typography.

Analysis and corrections.

Creation of a text or choice of a classic. Relationship between text and images. The three voices of an illustrated album: two independent languages that intertwine and suggest a third.

How to sell our work. The market. Copyrights.

Search for the style and/or the plastic techniques applied to the book.

Prepare for the Bologna Fair and Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2020

The emotional tone. Working from what we are. The importance of sketches.

(2 weeks) Meeting with the teacher

The story-board. Our map

Closing the course

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(1 week) Fair Results (for attendees)

The graphic and narrative rhythm of the book. The format. The composition. In a book, everything must have a narrative meaning.

Individual work to finalize the project, with limited tutoring for students who do not attend the Fair

Creation of characters and environments.

In search of the key illustration. Start of the final arts.

Work in your studio (5 weeks) With tutoring for the most important questions.

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Aiello Pini, Federica

Maestro, Laura

Carella, Serena

Meischke, Hedie

Cavallini, Valeria

Montanari, Iside

Codutti, Paola

Novillo, Carla

Erbilgiç, Merve

Nuzzarello, Ermelinda

Garayoa, Sandra

Pita, María José

Gelli, Lisa

Smith, Lesley Erica

Illarramendi, Iban

Teixeira, Denise

Isern, Carol

Teuben, Corine

Landa, Eli

Van Noort, Margriet Verhoeff, Nelleke Yerga Acedo, David Zamora Agg, Violeta

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