Chiara Carminati writes and translates poetry, stories and plays for children and young people. Specialised in poetry didactics, she holds basic and advanced courses for teachers and librarians. In 2012, she received the Andersen Prize as best author. She has won important awards, including the Premio Strega Ragazzi for the novel Fuori fuoco, the Pierluigi Cappello Prize and the Camaiore Prize for the poems in Viaggia verso and the Nati per Leggere Prize for A fior di pelle (with Massimiliano Tappari). Among his best-known translations are Il mondo di Beatrix Potter (Mondadori) and Un anno di poesia di Bernard Friot (Lapis).

For MIMebù’s Kaleidoscopio series she provided poetic consultancy and wrote the afterword to:

Piccole poesie di famiglia