Anja

Anna Keller Keith was born in the Ruhr area and spent her childhood between football pitches, tower blocks and the public library. She studied Comparative Literature and German-French Studies in Bochum, Bonn and Paris, worked as an editor and conducted research in media education. Today, Anna Keller lives in Cologne, where she writes, teaches creative…

Clara Thomasset is a Belgian author and illustrator who only recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. She specialises in children’s books, but also enjoys writing stories and poems for adults in her art collective Koven. Inspired by the seemingly insignificant things in life, such as daydreaming, her cats and walks…

Jörg Bernardy is a philosopher and author. He writes journalistic texts (for DIE ZEIT, among others) and books for children, young people and adults. He philosophises with children in the “Maus zum Hören”, in the podcast at MausLive (WDR) and for the ‘Gedankenflieger’. He is a member of the jury for the LUCHS Children’s Book…

Heidemarie Brosche, born in 1955 in Neuburg/Danube, was a secondary school teacher and has been successfully writing children’s, youth and non-fiction books for a good 30 years. She often writes for children and young people who don’t like reading. In 2020, she was awarded the Volkacher Taler by the German Academy for Children’s and Youth…

Leslie Niemöller, born in Tübingen, is a freelance photographer based in Cologne. She has five children and one grandchild. Her book The Cucumber Squad (Die Gurkentruppe) was shortlisted for the Korbinian – Paul Maar Prize for New Talents in 2024.  

Marta Azcona was born in Oviedo one day in April last century. She graduated in Philology and moved to Madrid, where she began to work as an editor on various radio and television programmes. After more than two decades writing scripts for fiction series, she worked for five years at Televisa Internacional creating and developing…

Anna Font was born in Barcelona. She loves books. Sometimes she writes them and whenever she can she illustrates them. Even as a child she explained things by drawing, perhaps because she is the daughter of an illustrator and because at home she was always surrounded by pencils, colours, comics, illustrated books and other treasures…

Ulrike Möltgen, born in Wuppertal in 1973, studied communication design under Wolf Erlbruch. She taught as a lecturer at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and her work has won numerous awards and been shown in exhibitions. She lives with her son in Wuppertal. www.ulrikemoeltgen.de

Doris Lecher grew up near a lake in Switzerland. She studied illustration at the Parsons School of Design in New York. She has been writing and drawing for children ever since. She won the Swiss Picture Book Award in 1997 with ‘Ich will Wurst’. In 2023, she was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award….