2025 BRAW Jury: Fiction, Toddler, Opera Prima

Stefano Cipolla is an Italian Art Director, Graphic Designer and professional Journalist. He always worked in the editorial field: In the 90's he started collaborating with magazines as a freelance and in 2001 he lands at the daily il Manifesto, a newspaper with an important graphic design tradition. In 2004 he arrives at the daily newspaper La Repubblica, being in charge of designing sections and special projects of the paper (La Domenica di Repubblica, R2, Libri di Repubblica) and two graphic restylings (2007 and 2014). From February 2018 he's the Art Director of the weekly L’Espresso. Since September 2024 he has been the creator and editor in chief of the quarterly journal Grafica Magazine. He teaches Editorial Graphic Design, Infographic and History of Communication Design I Rufa - Rome University of Fine Arts. Rufa - Rome University of Fine Arts. He’s also at the Scuola di Giornalismo di Urbino, MiMaster in Milano and he holds conferences and workshops. He's also a Domestika teacher and his course "Foundamentals of Editorial Graphic Design for Magazines" is online since May 2022. His job is his passion: He believes working with images is the greatest luck you can have, and that's what he tries to convey to his students.

Diletta Colombo (1981) has been a bookseller since 2002. In 2012, together with Chiara Bottani, she opened SpazioB**K, a bookshop-laboratory in Milan that has become a national reference point for illustrated publications of all kinds, from all over the world, for all ages and for professional training. They have reimagined the role of books and bookshops as activators of connections in different contexts. She is involved in editorial research, consultancy and communication in the fields of illustration, graphic design, comics and craftsmanship. Since 2018, she has been running the interdisciplinary project Il libro nella giungla, an initiative to educate readers in bookstores, libraries, schools, museums, cultural spaces and businesses across Italy, promoting bibliodiversity and the freedom and autonomy of readers. In 2024, this project led to the documentary La vocazione di perdersi, produced by the bookshop with the support of Topipittori, Vanvere, Fioriblù and Ass. Ts'Ai Lun 105.

Pam Dix is Chair of IBBY UK (international Board of Books for Young People), a role that involves wide international collaboration as well as developing networks amongst the children’s book community in the UK. Currently, she manages a small charity, the Akili Trust, which establishes community libraries in rural areas in Kenya and is on the board of Book Aid International, a major UK based book donation charity. She has worked as a school librarian, as a school library adviser and has run a school library and museum loan service, all in inner London, and as a university lecturer teaching undergraduate and MA level courses on the role of books and resources in children’s education. She has recently edited Children’s Literature in Education with Nicola Daly and Libby Limbrick, published by Trentham Books (2018), and is the author of several books on school libraries. She is currently working on a history of illustration in children’s information books with the well-known children’s author Ruth Thomson. She contributes articles regularly to the UK journal BFK - Books for Keeps and reviews books for the IBBY UK website.