Kai Lüftner was born in 1975 in Berlin. He studied Social Pedagogy and has had different jobs, such as social assistant, construction worker, pizza delivery, bouncer, texts writer for commercials and songs, comedy author, concert organiser, composer and musician, radio redactor.
Nowadays, he works as a scripts proof-reader and director. And also as children books author.
"It will never be the same, mom said. But we'll have to keep going on. Even though it's difficult. Dad will always be with me".
A poetic picture book about how little Eugenio, after losing his dad, perplexed confronts the world.
* Awarded by the Read Foundation with Leipziger Lesekompass 2014
* Top 7 books for young readers, september 2013
"This touching picture book is a great masterpiece" (BuchMarkt, magazine specialized in books, Germany).
"The author, Kai Lüftner, finds a language that is really close to the feelings, the experience and the way of thinking of the child... Close, sincere, direct. Authentic, full of touching simple poetry" (Stuttgart Nachrichten)