SPEAKERS 2025

Mirian Luki is a journalist and a writer. She has worked in the popular press for years and since 2018 has been working in the Galtzagorri Association on issues related to the mediation of reading children's and youth literature (HGL). She runs, among others, the magazine Behinola, the only Basque magazine on HGL and the podcast Gonagorri on the same subject. Argia (Susa, 2023) published the narrative collection and won the Basque Silver Prize.

Raisa Raekallio from Kittilä, Finland, and Misha del Val from Bilbao, Basque Country are a Lapland-based artist couple. Raisa studied fine arts in Finland and Misha in the Basque Country and Australia. They are working in collaboration on paintings, drawings, performance art pieces, ceramics, curatorial projects, and podcasts since 2013.

Myrto Delivoria was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. She is a painter and an illustrator. She has illustrated books, theatre posters, boardgames and her work has been published in Greece, Brazil, Korea and France.  She has been honored for her illustrations with the Greek State Illustration Award, the! EBGE Illustration Award, the IBBY GREECE Illustration Award among others. In 2016 she received an honorable mention on the IBBY Honour List 2016.e Honor IBBY 201

Take Take Take was founded in 2015 by graphic designer Nikola Janíčková and illustrator Jindřich Janíček. TTT is a tiny publishing house. For a few years, it was also an even smaller bookshop. «We publish books of various genres. We stopped looking for a connection between them a long time ago. We both also develop our own artistic careers outside Take Take Take, illustrating and designing for other publishers and clients».

Steven Guarnaccia is an illustrator and designer, and Associate Professor of Illustration at Parsons School of Design. He directed the Illustration Program from 2004-2011 and he was art director of the Op-Ed page of the New York Times from 2001-2004. During his four decade career as an internationally recognized illustrator, he has worked for major magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times, Abitare, Rolling Stone and Domus, and has created murals for Disney Cruise Lines and exhibition drawings for a show of Achille Castiglioni’s furniture design at the Museum of Modern Art. Guarnaccia is the author of books on design and popular culture, including Black and White, a book about the absence of color, published by Chronicle Books.  He is also the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books, including the design-themed books, The Three Little Pigs: an Architectural Tale and Cinderella: a Fashionable Tale, both published by Abrams. Guarnaccia has designed watches for Swatch and greeting cards for The Museum of Modern Art. His work has won awards from the AIGA, the Art Directors Club and the Bologna Book Fair, and has been exhibited in one-man shows in the USA and Europe 

Theda Mimilaki received her Bachelor of Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. Additional interests included graphic design, multimedia and printmaking. Theda has been illustrating children’s books and young adult's literature books covers since 2010 and she has also focused on educational aspects of visual arts in primary schools. Nominated twice for Greek State Illustration Award and twice for IBBY Greece Illustration Award. She has participated in several art festivals and exhibitions. She lives in Volos, a small town near mountain Pelion.

Vanessa López is an editor at La Duplicadora in CDMX together with Emmanuel García. Since 2016 they have been reproducing and redesigning prints found in the private collections of some second-hand old bookshops, and they also publish current works by emerging artists. They are committed to small editions. They like to publish books that take advantage of the qualities of the risograph printing system and pay special attention to the finishes.