RED STARS
Davide Morosinotto
WHATEVER HAPPENS, STAY TOGETHER
* An epic adventure of separated twins, trying to find each other, set in an accurate historical reconstruction of the Leningrad blockade.
* The dramatic storytelling creates a sense of immediacy that brings the narrative alive. The emotions leap stirring leap out at the reader from the pages of the protagonists’ diary.
IN OTHER WORDS – BOOKTRUST’ S BOOK IN TRANSLATION AWARD, LONDON – WINNER – HONOR TITLE 2018
FIRST PUBLISHER: MONDADORI (ITALY), 2017
RIGHTS SOLD IN: GERMANY (THIENEMANN), FRANCE (L’ÉCOLE DES LOISIR), UK (PUSHKIN), USA (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE), RUSSIA (PESHKOMBOOKS), NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM (BAECKENS BOOKS)
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Davide Morosinotto
Davide is not only a sci-fi and children’s author, but also a journalist and videogame translator. In 2018, Red Stars, one of his internationally successful books, won In Other Words – BookTrust’s Book in Translation Award in London. In 2017, he won the Italian Andersen Award with The Pocket Watch Gang, the adventure he dreams of having lived as a child. Then, in 2018, he was a finalist at Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in Germany. In 2019, he won the Prix des Bouquineurs en Seine in France and the Vlag and Wimpel in the Netherlands.
