2025TIBE Grazia Gotti Forum
How to Make a Better Future for Children's Books
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 1400-1630
Venue: TIBE, 2F, Conference Room 4
Moderator: Rex How, Chairman, Locus Publishing Company
Speaker: Grazia Gotti (Consultant to Bologna Children's Book Fair)
Language: English/Chinese (Consecutive Translation)
Partners: TIBE, Locus Publishing Company
Session 1: From kindergarten to Bologna Children's Book Fair
Session 2: If I were 30, I will open a children's bookstore again.
Grazia Gotti
A Pedagogy graduate tutored by Professor Antonio Faeti, Grazia Gotti is a co-founder of the historic “Giannino Stoppani” bookstore and the cultural cooperative of the same name. An illustration authority, she has organised exhibitions of Italian and foreign artists. In 2003, she started the Accademia Drosselmeier, a Study Centre offering training to booksellers. Her long-term collaboration with Bologna Children's Book Fair and extensive travel abroad have given her an in-depth understanding of the global children's book publishing scene. Grazia gives presentations in Italy and abroad on the history of children's publishing as well as on literature and poetry for children and young adults, recently starting a new project, the Junior Poetry Festival. In 2013, she published her first book on her ten-year experience as a primary school teacher, A Scuola con i libri. This was followed by other books, her latest in 2022: Alla lettera L. Libri & Librerie, Bompiani. She chaired the National Committee organising events to mark the centenary of the birth of Gianni Rodari, curating Rodari a colori, a section dedicated to illustrations of Rodari's works in the book on Gianni Rodari published by Mondadori in its I Meridiani series. Grazie also writes the “Mappamondi” column in the magazine “Liber” published in Florence. She also collaborates with the “Italian Excellence” exhibition series.
Rex How
1956 – Born in Busan, South Korea.
1974 – Back to Taiwan and studied in National Taiwan University.
1979 – Began his career in publishing industry.
1996 – Founded Locus Publishing Company.
2009 -2013 – National Policy Advisor to the President of Republic of China, Taiwan
2014 – received Golden Tripod Special Contribution Award for his contribution in publishing.
2021 – bestowed upon the title of Knight of the Order of the Italian Star by the President of the Italian Republic.
2022 – bestowed Golden Comics Special Contribution Award for his contribution in comics.
Presently serving as the Chairman of Locus Publishing Company and the Publisher of Net and Books.
Author of many books, including: Work on Water (Locus), My Korean Story (Locus), Confessions of an Underground Buddhist (Net and Books), Reading in the Internet Age (Net and Books), Taiwan Unbound:Our Next Ten Years (Net and Books), Taiwan Sets Sail: New Hope (Net and Books), Search for That Magical Book (Net and Books), If I Were Fifteen (Net and Books), Taiwan Unbound: a New Chapter (Net and Books).
A-bi Sword(co-author as the script writer using the pen name of Ma Li, Dala Pub), Prequel of A-bi Sword(novel using the pen name of Ma Li, Dala Pub), Snow Cotton, Seed and the Wind, and Like Water,We Flow, (co-author as the script writer using the pen name of Ma Li, Locus)
Translation works: How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren (Commercial Press, Taiwan), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (Yuan-Liou Publishing)