Bernardo Marçolla

Bernardo Marçolla is an Italian-Brazilian writer with a degree in Psychology (1997), a master's degree in Social Psychology (2000), and a doctorate and post-doctorate in Literature (2006, 2010). He worked for over ten years as a professor in the Psychology course at PUC Minas and, as a researcher in the field of Literature, dedicated himself to studies on the work of Guimarães Rosa and the development of the concept of "poetic porosity". His doctoral thesis received the CAPES award for best thesis in Brazil in 2007, in Literature and Linguistics. He has published two academic books in the field of Literary Studies, another on the intersections between Psychology and Ecology, and an experimental book with photographs. In his youth, he held two exhibitions of drawings in galleries, but it was only in 2019 that he began illustrating books, when he started writing for children. His first children's books – “Me and You and the Universe” (2020) and “All You Can Imagine” (2021) – were originally published in the USA, with translations already available in South Korea and China.