Daniela Berti is an Italian author and illustrator. She studied visual arts and theater at the Università Iuav di Venezia in Venice and illustration at the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Urbino and ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels. In 2018 she obtained a special mention at the Concurso Internacional de àlbum ilustrado de Gran Canaria with the project “Dove è Pongomario?” That same year she won the Rodari Prize at the Mille9Cento20 Video Fiabe Festival and the Faber Prize in Turin for the video animation Macula. She has taken part in group art and illustration exhibitions such as Mutatis in Palermo, Mediterranea 17 at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, and Le immagini della Fantasia 33 in Sarmede. Originally from a small town in the Treviso area, she currently lives in Bologna.