Chiara Delle Donne graduated in Contemporary History from the University of Bologna, against the backdrop of the La Pantera student movement and demonstrations against the war in Yugoslavia. She arrived in Madrid on a postgraduate scholarship to study the anti-militarist movement in Spain. She currently lives in Alcalá de Henares. At the Diógenes bookshop she is in charge of the contemporary fiction section and, in particular, the selection of children’s and young adult literature.