The Magical Pillows
| Original title | Τα μαγικά μαξιλάρια |
| Original language | Greek |
| Place of first publication | Atene |
| ISBN original edition | 960-293-731-9 |
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In the land of the greedy King Arpatilaos, Sundays are banned, along with birthday parties, children’s playgrounds and even hiccups! Everyone works day and night to fill the king’s vaults with diamonds. With his new invention, the Nightmare Pillows, the king’s fiendish adviser even plans to put an end to people’s dreams, so that they will work even harder, without moaning and complaining. Andonis is a school teacher who finds out this secret and organizes, with the help of the children of his class, a plan to object to Arpatilao’s plans. They make pillows full of the beauties of the world. So the hope blooms in the people’s souls again and the dream of life, freedom and joy comes back alive. Regarded as one of the most significant titles in Trivizas’ production, “Τα μαγικά μαξιλάρια” is a short story that conveys to very young readers some important values such as democracy, freedom, hope, cooperation, sharing, civic and social commitment.
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Evghenios Trivizàs
(Author)
Evghenios Trivizàs is one of the most popular children’s writers. He published over 100 books, translated all over the world, and received several national and international awards. Shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, he was also selected for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2015, 2018 and 2019. Many of his books have been turned into TV series and he is currently the most performed children’s theatre writer in Greece.
Noemi Vola
(Illustrator)
Noemi Vola, born in 1993, graduated at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. For the publisher Corraini she wrote and illustrated Un libro di cavalli* (*rivoluzionari) and Un orso sullo stomaco, winner of 2018 Premio Nazionale Nati per Leggere. Her book Fim? Isto nao açaba assim (Planeta Tangerina) is the winner of the International Serpa Picturebook Prize.
Tiziana Cavasino
(Translator)
She translated both prose and poetry of important Greek modern and contemporary writers, and she edited essay anthologies, short stories and poems. Among the others translated: Alki Zei, Katerina Anghelaki Rooke, Thodoros Anghelopulos, Zeta Kunduri, Basil Karadais e Kostandinos Kavafis. With the edition of Konstandinos Kavafis work Eroi, amici e amanti (Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore 2006) she was the finalist for the Monselice Prize for the Literary Translation – Leone Traverso Section in 2007. She engaged with a language sensitive to gender differences and she collaborated to the realization of the volume Generi e Linguaggi, published in 2017 from the University of Padua.
For Camelozampa, she translated Alki Zei’s Micioragionamenti and Il nonno Bugiardo, and Evghenios Trivizàs’ I cuscini magici.