Putting the Pieces Together

Clémence Pollet (France)

Clémence Pollet, born in Paris and grown up in Belgium, studied at the École Estienne (Paris) and the École des Arts Décoratifs (Strasbourg) before a stay as guest student in Bologna (Italy) which inspired her creative work. Collaborating with HongFei Editions since 2012, she has worked on important texts and figures of the Chinese culture including La Ballade de Mulan (2015) which won the Chen Bochui International Award in Shanghai, and The Life of Confucius (2018) available in French and Chinese languages.

Deanna Belluti (Italy)

With over twenty years of experience in the field, Deanna Belluti is the Illustration and Translation Events Manager at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the leading international trade fair dedicated to books and content for young readers.

At BCBF, she is responsible for the exhibitions and events focused on illustration, including the international tour of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition and the special initiatives. Among these are the “Italian Excellence” exhibition series—presented in more than thirty countries, the “Chinese Excellence in Children’s Illustration” exhibitions, organized in collaboration with institutional and international partners. Her activity also included projects such as the exhibition “Off the Page… and in the World of Fashion”, in partnership with Pitti Immagine; the illustration contest “The Children Spectator”, developed in the framework of the European project “Mapping – A Map on the Aesthetics of Performing Arts for Early Years; and the international competition “Join the Revolution! Giving Every Child Good Books”, created for the 39th IBBY International Congress.

In the field of translation, Deanna Belluti coordinates the BCBF Translators Centre, whose activities include the Translators’ Café—a hub for international exchange and debate among translators of children’s books and professionals from the publishing industry—the “In Altre Parole” translation contest, and the “World Directory of Children’s Book Translators”, an international database of translators specializing in children's literature.

Among the international events to which she has been invited are: serving on the jury of the Catálogo Iberoamérica de Ilustración in Guadalajara (2014); participation in “L’Œil du monde”, an initiative focused on international creativity and intercultural exchange, held in Nantes (2023); the Bangkok Illustration Fair (BKKIF), where she served as a reviewer (2024); and the European Literary Translation Conference, held in Strasbourg (2024).

吴睿哲 (Jui-Che Wu) (Taiwan)

Jui-Che Wu  is an image maker and graduate of the MA Visual Communication programme at the Royal College of Art (London), whose practice explores the interplay of poetry, storytelling and material translation. He blends the techniques of collaging and crafting with words, always mindful of the chosen medium's influence on the narrative. 

His work has been featured at the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition (Italy) and the Ilustrarte Biennale (Portugal), and distributed in Taiwan and Portugal. His recent publications include Dancing is to Make Movements (Taipei: Sīlōo Story, 2024), A Grasshopper Hops (Taipei: Locus Publishing, 2023), A Horse, A Boat and An Apple Tree (Lisbon: Stolen Books, 2020), and Le Défilé (London: Self-published, 2019). He received the Golden Tripod Award in 2024, and is the first prize winner of the Golden Butterfly Award in 2025.

Moderator Darel Seow (Singapore)

Darel Seow is a visual storyteller, educator and designer who illustrates the tales of the natural world through his unique brand of wry wit and whimsy. He believes in the draw of storytelling as a means of engagement, creating experiences that simultaneously excite and educate. His multi-disciplinary practice is centred on man’s changing relationship with nature, in which he explores learning through the power of storytelling, imagination and play. These come to life through his works spanning public art, interactive experiences and of course picture books, which tell and re-tell uniquely Singaporean stories.