MATTEO RIGHETTO is an award-winning author and professor of literature. Many of his works take place in beautiful mountain landscapes that he knows deeply, having visited them since his childhood backpacking with his father. Among his best-known novels are the celebrated La pelle dell’orso (The Bear Skin), recently made into a movie, and Apri gli occhi (Open Your Eyes), winner of the Premio Cortina. L’anima della frontiera (Soul of the Border) became a literary success and was sold in several countries before its publication in Italy. The author is now working on the third title in the trilogy, La terra promessa (The Promised Land). He lives between Padua and the Dolomites in Italy.