Laura Rescio (La Spezia, 1970) graduated with honours in Foreign Languages and Literature (Polish and Russian) from the University of Genoa. After living in the Netherlands for several years and working in IT, she attended a course in editorial translation taught by Isabella Blum and a Master’s degree in Print and Multimedia Publishing at the University of Bologna directed by Umberto Eco. After an internship at Bollati Boringhieri, she began collaborating with the publishing house on translations, revisions and proofreading. She has been translating and proofreading from Polish, Dutch and English for more than fifteen years for various publishers, including Adelphi, Piemme, Scheiwiller and Feltrinelli. She is a member of AITI and the Strade union of editorial translators.

For MIMebù she translated:

Can I have a tiger? Mi compri una tigre?

Prendimi per mano

Il bambino che guarda con le mani

Mirabella. La Storia raccontata da un albero