Pietro Albì Author

Pietro Albì was born in 1979 in the small town of Canzano in the Abruzzo region of Italy. After studying literature at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he would also work for some years as a screenwriter and playwright. At the age of 32, he left his life in the city and returned to his hometown to write his first novel, Farfariel. Today, he lives in a small village between Monti della Laga and Monti Sibillini and enjoys walking in the woods with his wife, his three cats and dog. Denise Muir is an Italian to English translator with a special interest in children's literature. In her twenty-year career, she has translated the full gamut from board books to young adult fiction and everything in between. Her translations have been nominated for the Carnegie Prize three times, and The Distance Between Me and the Cherry Tree was selected as the IBBY UK 2020 nominee in the translation category. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland where she also teaches psychology in a local secondary school.