From illustrating poems to creating a picture book: Creative collaborations with Italian author Anna Travagliati, Italian artist Serena Della Bona and US translator and editor Bristin Scalzo Jones | Intellect Skip to content
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Volume 13, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-8022
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Abstract

In this article, author Anna Travagliati explores her creative collaborations with artist Serena Della Bona and translator and editor Bristin Scalzo Jones, in the form of summaries of two projects: (2021), whose English translation was carried out by Jones, and their latest project, the picture book | , an original story which reinterprets the familiar fairy tale . A large part of the article consists of interviews conducted by the author with Serena Della Bona and Bristin Scalzo Jones, who detail their respective backgrounds, interests, professional practices and their views on collaboration and on creating picture books for a young adult and adult readership. These interviews centre feminist collaboration in both content and form, in so far as they allow this article to push back against masculine individualistic conceptions of authorship by providing a polyphony of female voices, spoken in their own words. The article is accompanied by two appendices which provide examples from both and .

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