Dolores Prades

Dolores Prades is a founding partner and director of the Instituto Emília, and publisher of Revista Emília and Cuadernos Emília. She holds a PhD in Economic History from USP and is a specialist in children's and young adult literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also the director of the Emília Training Laboratory.

She served as curator and coordinator of the seminars Conversas ao Pé da Página (2011–2015) and Arte, Palavra e Leitura (2018, 2019, and 2020); as coordinator in Brazil for the Latin American and Caribbean Chair of Reading and Writing; and as a guest professor in the Master's program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She was also curator of FLUPP Parque (2014 and 2015).

Dolores was a member of the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2016), the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Award (2016), and the Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award (2019). Since 2018, she has been a consultant for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for Latin America and works in editorial consulting and fields related to reading and reader education. She is also a translator, researcher, and writer in the field of books and reading.

Other activities involving the participant:

Children’s Book Routes: circulation, connections, and opportunities in Iberoamerica

Negrescolor

Invitado de Honor

Born in Barcelona in 1978. He studied at Escola Massana. He works as an illustrator and participates in various socially engaged projects. His work has received major recognitions, including the Junceda Award, the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition, the Golden Pinwheel (China), the White Ravens List, and the Bologna Ragazzi Award.

Other activities involving the participant:

The album in Barcelona
From illustration to space

Sara Bertrand

Escritora chilena, vive y trabaja en Santiago de Chile.

Es tallerista para la Biblioteca de Santiago y profesora del taller de Escritura Creativa de la Universidad Diego Portales. Ha dictado el curso Apreciación estética de los libros juveniles en la Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades en la Universidad Católica de Chile durante los años 2017, 2018 y 2019. Tallerista para Laboratorio Emilia de formación (España y Brasil), donde ha dictado cursos de formación para profesores, mediadores y bibliotecarios, además de talleres literarios para la red de profesores del ayuntamiento de Madrid, España. Ha dictado cursos de creación literaria en España, Colombia, Brasil y Chile. Escribe para Cuaderno Emilia (Brasil) y esporádicamente para la Revista de la Universidad (UNAM, México). Ha trabajado en diarios, revistas y radios. Ha ganado numerosos premios, entre ellos: el The Braw Amazing Bookshelf Bologna Ragazi Award en 2025 con Afuera los fantasmas; el New Horizons Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017 con La mujer de la guarda; el White Ravens 2017 con No se lo coma; el premio Medalla Colibrí lo recibió en 2019; el Sello distinción de la Cátedra UNESCO en Brasil 2019 por Al mulher da guarda y en 2022 su novela Álbum familiar ganó el premio al arte editorial entregado por Caniem, México. Ha publicado en Francia, Italia, España, Brasil, México, Estados Unidos, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela. Ha sido traducida al francés, catalán, italiano, inglés y portugués.

Other activities involving the participant:

Gabriela Mistral: 80 years since the Nobel Prize

Amanda Mijangos

Ilustradora mexicana egresada de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la UNAM; estudió ilustración en Argentina y México. Desde 2014 ilustra poesía y literatura en libros y revistas dirigidas a personas de todas las edades. Su trabajo ha sido premiado en el Catálogo Iberoamérica ilustra; la Bienal de Ilustración de Bratislava, la Trienal de Ilustración de Tallin (Estonia), la Feria del Libro Infantil de Bolonia y el Catálogo White Ravens, entre otros. Nominada por México al Premio Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2025.

IG: @amandamijangos

web: www.amandamijangos.com

Adolfo Córdova

Adolfo Córdova (Veracruz, Ver., 1983) is a journalist, writer, researcher, and reading mediator, with a master's degree in Children's and Young Adult Books and Literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico. He has published 15 books that have received awards such as the National Fine Arts Prize for Children's Story, The Best of the Banco del Libro, the Antonio García Cubas Award from INAH, The White Ravens, the Cuatrogatos Foundation Prize, the Best Children's Books from the New York Public Library, and the Bologna Ragazzi Award. His works have been translated into Maya, Nuntajiiyi, Catalan, Italian, German, Arabic, Russian, and Korean. In 2025, he published Pequeña Flama, Trueno Pequeño (Loqueleo), Río viento (El Naranjo), and an anthology of fairy tales by Marina Colasanti for the UNAM reading materials collection. Since 2014, he has maintained a blog specializing in children's and young adult literature: linternasybosques.com.