Telling Stories Wrong

(Omegna, Italy, 1920 - Rome, Italy, 1980)
Politician, journalist, educator, and writer. He received the Andersen Award in 1970. He graduated from teacher training college and began giving private lessons. He became involved with the Italian Communist Party and contributed to newspapers such as... L'Ordine Nuovo and L’Unitáwhere he developed his passion for children's literature. Author of a vast body of work, he achieved success with titles such as "Tales on the Telephone" or Novelle fatte a macchinna, two of his masterpieces that demonstrate that good narratives can result from brevity or that the reader can be left to decide how the story ends. Based on his visits to schools and his work dedicated to children, he wrote the Grammar of fantasy (1973), which was his great contribution to contemporary pedagogy, with which he conveyed his revolutionary and liberating idea of ​​literature.