Rosa Tiziana Bruno is a sociologist, writer and teacher. As the author of fairy stories, novels and essays on the topic of education, she has won two international prizes: International Writers Awards 2017 (IFERS, Los Angeles) and the Gourmand World Awards 2018 for the best children's book in Italian, and second in the world ranking. In Italy she won the 2017 Premio Candelaio Junior and was nominated for the 2016 Strega Ragazzi prize, and the 2017 and 2018 Bancarellino prize. She was also awarded the Premio Andersen: a fairy story tweet in 2013.