Noemi Vola

Noemi Vola was born in 1993 in Bra, a small town in Northern Italy. She is the award-winning picture book creator of If You Cry Like a Fountain, No, No, No, Bear with Me, and the internationally acclaimed The Unfortunate Life of Worms, among other titles. Her debut graphic novel is La lunga notte dei rospi (The Long Night of the Toads). Her books have been translated into dozens of languages and have received major recognition, including the Serpa International Picturebook Prize, the Amadora BD Award for Best Foreign Illustrated Book, the “Nati per Leggere” Award, and the CICLA Award for Best International Illustrated Book. Her work has also been selected multiple times for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition.
Noemi creates most of her work with felt-tip pens, tools she can no longer live without. Her stories and illustrations blend humor, vulnerability, grit, tears, and a profound sense of humanity—without ever losing sight of the absurd. She writes for children because she sees “children’s literature as one of the freest, most complex, and most powerful spaces for storytelling.”

Click here to read Noemi's Mini Proust Q&I (Question and Illustration) inspired by the Proust Questionnaire.

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