Marina Girardi, born in Belluno in 1979, makes comics and illustrations.
After attending the International School of Comics of Firenze, laboratories by Mirada Association at Ravenna and the Comics and illustration course at the Fine Arts Academy  of Bologna, she wins the "Komikazen – Festival del fumetto di realtà" contest  in 2008.
As it was said: “Komikazen is not a contest which gives, but asks for”, and so Marina did her first book – Kurden People – for the publisher Comma 22.
The story that Girardi tells us mixes her personal travelling experience with History. Kurden People, as best graphic journalism, has the merit of making us think about a human fact that is not much present in our paper and TV news, and, what's more, she does it with fresh and original comics in which we are taken on a search for a narrative and emotional path, reinforced by intermezzos of a didactic and historical nature that awaken us and remind us that as Muñoz and Sampayo would say “life isn’t a comic book, baby”.
The exhibition “Kurden People”, is going to be held in the most important Feltrinelli bookshop of Bologna.