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Joséfine Mjahed is a French illustrator. She prints some of her illustrations in silkscreen, a technique that allows her to obtain bright and vivid colours that perfectly match her graphic universe. She also creates illustrations for the cultural sector and more recently for the press and radio. www.malijo.fr

Kaleidoscube is a German development studio from Stuttgart with a strong focus on narration and atmosphere. The team met while studying together at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and has since worked on various (animation) films and interactive projects. “A Jugglers Tale” is their first own video game, which is available for PC and consoles and has…

Michaela Konrad, born in Graz in 1972, lives and works in Vienna and Santa Cruz (Tenerife). She received her artistic training at the Centro Municipal de Arte Gráfico in Santa Cruz, with the draughtsman Tommi Kuehberger and she studied for a year at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Michaela Konrad’s work spans a…

The author Tàssies was born as Josep Antoni Tàssies Penella in Barbastro in Aragón, Spain, in 1963. He studied Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His drawings have been published in Spanish newspapers like El País (Madrid), La Vanguardia (Barcelona) and El Periódico de Catalunya (Barcelona), where he has drawn lengthy series of portraits…

Roser Rimbau was born in Girona, Spain in 1968. She is a former journalist, former corrector and former percussionist, but she has no intention to stop writing for children. In 2006 she received La Galera’s Comte Kurt award for En Naïm s’ha descolorit (Naïm has lost color). Takatuka also published her story, El Gol (The…

The Rosa Sardina Collective is made up of twelve illustrators from different backgrounds and experiences who coincided in the Illustration department at the Escola de la Dona in Barcelona, and who believe in collaborative work as a way to change the world. They use collage technique, where they use their drawings to create textures.

Lars Meyer was born between two seas in the far north of Germany. He studied law, but finds that writing fantastic stories is more exciting than harping on paragraphs. For him, comics are art, films a passion and books food for the soul. He keeps fit with bodyweight training and running in the woods –…

Marie Doerfler (*1993 in Regensburg) is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She studied communication and graphic design at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Falmouth University and then illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She currently lives and works in Regensburg and Vienna. Her illustrations are inspired by nature, the everyday and…

Nele Brönner, born in Marburg/Lahn in 1977, lives and works as an illustrator, freelance artist and comic artist in Berlin. She studied visual communication at the UdK Berlin, the Politecnico di Milano and the Accademia di Brera. Her work is published in magazines, books and newspapers (taz, Le Monde diplomatique,Stadtaspekte). www.nelebroenner.com    

Leonard Erlbruch, born in Wuppertal in 1984, studied illustration at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. While still a student, he illustrated several children’s books, including Grandfather and the Wolves (Carl Hanser Verlag). Since graduating in 2013, he has worked as a freelance illustrator. Leonard Erlbruch’s Kinderzimmerkalender (Children’s Bedroom Calendar) has been published annually…

Claire Caillebotte is a graduate illustrator from HEAR (Haute école des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg). She works in the the area of children’s publishing, the press and documentary books. Her favourite technique is gouache which she sometimes mixes with coloured pencils. Claire is also a harpist, and plays and gives harp lessons in Strasbourg. www.clairecaillebotte.com

Friederike Dammermann, born in Braunschweig in 1972, studied Art and German in Hamburg and Bremen with stays abroad in New York, Paris and Nimes. Besides her job as a teacher in Flensburg, she writes and illustrates children’s books. “An Elephant in Our Town” won the silver medal of the Key Colours Award 2020 in Belgium….

Heike Herold lives and works in Cologne. Since receiving her diploma, she has worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator for various publishers. Among other awards, she received the Troisdorf Picture Book Scholarship in 2016. Heike Herold gives workshops and has participated in exhibitions at home and abroad with her illustrations. heikeherold.jimdofree.com

Brigitte Schär is a writer, performer and singer. She travels the world with her multimedia reading programmes. Her books and CDs for children and adults have been translated into 16 languages and have won many awards, including the Swiss Children’s Book Prize. The author lives in Zurich. www.brigitte-schaer.ch    

Nils Mohl, born in 1971, lives as a freelance writer and scriptwriter in his native city of Hamburg and owns a caravan on the North Sea island of Amrum. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work, including the German Children’s Literature Award (2012), the Oldenburg Children’s and Youth Book Prize (2011), the Austrian…

Regina Kehn was born in Hamburg in 1962 and studied illustration there. In 1989 she received adiploma in the field of children’s books. Since then she has been working as a freelance illustrator. Shehas already received several awards for her work.

Laurel Snyder is a multi-award-winning American poet and children’s author. She has published eight novels for children and young adults, several picture books and two collections of poetry. Snyder teaches creative writing for children and young adults at Hamline University. Together with her family, she lives far from the sea, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Andreas Völlinger grew up in the Ruhr region and has grown up to some extent. Already during his studies of communication science and English in Essen and Wellington/New Zealand, he wrote articles for various magazines, shot short films and wrote the texts for numerous comics. This was followed by an internship in script editing and…

Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker was born 1982 in the Krems Valley, Austria. He studied in Vienna and runs the family farm. Kaiser-Mühlecker has won numerous awards for his literary work, including the Austrian State Prize. Siegfried Lenz said of Kaiser-Mühlecker’s work, “wonderful the way you write” and Peter Handke sees him “in a row with Stifter and…

Juliette MacIver is the author of 18 picture books. She has received the Storylines Notable Book Award six times, and has had multiple nominations for awards in NZ, Australia and the U.S. She recently won Best Picture Book in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Juliette lives with her husband and four…

Sarah Davis grew up in New Zealand. She won the 2009 Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Crichton Award for Best New Illustrator. She recently won Best Picture Book in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Sarah lives in Sydney, Australia.  

Liliane Oser has always been painting, drawing and crafting. She studied illustration in Hamburg and now draws for various publishers. When she is not on holiday on the farm, she lives with her family in Hamburg.

Regina Wenig was born in the Bavarian Forest and now lives in Frankfurt/ Main. She studied art history and theatre studies. Today she works as a waitress, clown, performer and writes and directs plays.

Seoha Lim is an illustrator. As a child, Seoha wanted to draw beautiful things when she grew up … which brought her to study creative writing and illustration. Since her childhood she has dreamed of a world where animals and humans live in perfect harmony. It is this inaginary world that inspires her illustrations. Today,…

Betty Conhoff, née Arias, comes from beautiful Peru and grew up in a port city on the Pacific. Ever since she can remember, paper and pencil have been faithful companions in her life. Even today, she has the fondest memories of the great evening drives with Dad to buy comics. She now lives in Germany…

Antonia Katt grew up in a house full of books and music as well as in the forest. She has always been an ardent story lover and simply writes what she herself would have liked to read as a child and teenager. After studying German and Romance languages and literature in Germany and Italy, she…

Anna Kindermann, born in 1987 in Berlin, has studied and worked in China and France before leading the Marketing and Foreign Rights departments at Kindermann Verlag from 2015 onwards. In 2020, she then took over the management from her motherBarbara Kindermann. The Twelve Labours of Hercules was Anna Kindermann’s debut as an author.

Dorota Wünsch, born in 1962 in Łódź (Poland), studied Art at the Acadamy of Fine Arts in her birth town before coming to Germany via a guest scholarship at the University of Mainz. She received several awards for her illustrations. For Kindermann Verlag, Dorota Wünsch has already illustrated Squire Ribbeck of Ribbeck in Havelland.

Gerda Muller was born in Naarden in the Netherlands in 1926. She attended the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts and Crafts, where the students were told, however, that outside of advertising there was no way to earn a living with illustrations. So at the end of the 1940s, she set off for Paris with a…

Inés María Jiménez has Spanish and German roots. She has been a freelance author since 2009. She prefers to write books for children and young people, but also non-fiction and stories for adults. She lives in the Ruhr region with her husband, her two daughters and her fuzzy poodle Balou. She loves reading, yoga, long…

Rüdiger Bertram lives with his family in Cologne, where he makes his living writing books for children and young people. He has been doing this for almost 20 years, but he has never written a unicorn book. That’s how the idea for Glitzerbande came about, because Rüdiger Bertram is a big unicorn fan. Really true…

Selim Özdogan was born in Cologne in 1971. He wanted to become a writer even as a child. Since 1995 he has published novels, stories, audio books and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. The Ant and the Frog is his first children’s book.

Clara Sophie Klein (born 1995) grew up in Copenhagen and grew up even more in Bonn. She studied design at Münster University of Applied Sciences with a focus on illustration and has been working freelance ever since. She is a part-time bartender, hobby cellist, full-time illustrator with a focus on book illustration and editorial.  

Ernst Kahl, born 1949 , is an author, painter and musician. His cartoons have appeared in Pardon, Konkret and Titanic, among others. Kahl was awarded the First Prize of the Cartoonale Düsseldorf, the Wilhelm Busch Prize, the Göttingen Elk and the Filmband in Gold for the screenplay of the Detlev Buck film “Wir können auch…

Will Gmehling, born in 1957, painted pictures for adults for a long time until he started writing books for children. In 1998 his first children’s book Tiertaxi Wolf & Co. was published by Sauerländer Verlag. Many picture and children’s books followed, which were translated into numerous languages. The children’s novel Freibad [The Lido] received several…

Eleonora Pace is an Italian based illustrator, specialized in picture books and school books. She also works as an art teacher at La Bottega del cigno in Padua, where she gives painting courses for children and adults. eleonorapace.wordpress.com

Lisa Rammensee was born in Nuremberg in 1990 and is proud of her Franconian roots. Via Trier, where her communication design studies gave her a lot of helpful knowledge about design and layout, she finally came to Hamburg. There she is working on her Master’s degree in illustration at the HAW. Her heart beats for…

Sandra Grimm lives in northern Germany with her husband and children. She has been writing books for young and older children for many years. When wild capybaras or other adventurous creatures come in and tell her stories, she likes to write them down for curious reading children.

Thais Mesquita was born in Brazil in 1989 and has lived in Germany for several years. She studied fine arts in her home country and media art and design at Bauhaus University-Weimar and has been working as a freelance illustrator, designer and 2D artist since 2011. She likes to experiment with different materials, textures and…

Corinna Antelmann, born in Bremen in 1969, has lived in Upper Austria since 2006. She studied literature and film at the University of Hildesheim and worked as a freelance author, dramaturge and lecturer after positions at the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and Trickompany Hamburg. She has published novels, plays, essays and received numerous scholarships and prizes for…

Katharina Bendixen, born in Leipzig in 1981, studied book science and Hispanic studies in Leipzig and Alicante and lives in Leipzig with her family. She writes books for children and adults. Her texts have been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize (2014), the Heinrich Heine Scholarship (2017) and a working…

Elizabeth Knox is an adventurous and imaginative fiction writer who has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas. Her writing is never static, and moves from historical drama, to science fiction, to memoir. Her novel, The Vintner’s Luck, first published in 1998, was a huge success with readers and critics…