Tokerau Brown is a Cook Islands Māori illustrator and multimedia artist. Co-director of Māori Pasifika art gallery Wheke Fortress, Brown is also a musician, audio engineer and animator.
Authors & Illustrators
Michaela Keeble is a lover of birds, fish and social justice, who also publishes poetry and short fiction. She grew up on Wurundjeri land in Australia and now lives on the Kāpiti Coast. Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai is based on conversations with her son Kerehi Grace (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Porou).
on 25 September 2023
After more than 15 years in journalism, Anne Loyer turned her attention from other people’s stories to her own. Since then, she has been writing books and novels for young and old alike. Her books include Car Boy, published by Thierry Magnier, and La Belle Rouge, published by Alice Jeunesse.
on 21 September 2023
Teresa Arroyo Corcobado is a Spanish illustrator. Teresa studied and lived in Edinburgh and Brussels. She enjoys mixing traditional and digital illustration techniques to create a colourful and texturally rich style. She is the author and illustrator of ‘Un Portugal’ for Maison Eliza and has worked with Versant Sud, Le Diplodocus and éditions Cépages.
on 20 September 2023
From museums to children’s magazines, games and multimedia, Clémence has built her career around a single idea: awakening children’s curiosity. The author of a number of children’s books and documentaries, Clémence is constantly taking on new challenges to pass on her love of words and images to children. She wrote “Bonjour le monde” for Maison…
on 20 September 2023
Emilio Urberuaga was born in Madrid in 1954. He began working in the world of illustration in 1982, and is the creator of the drawings for Manolito Gafotas, the character conceived by Elvira Lindo. He has illustrated all the books in the series, as well as other works by the same writer. Throughout his career…
on 11 September 2023
From an early age, Hardy Hinrichs wanted to make the images of his imagination visible to everyone; be it with a pencil, a brush, a spray can or a graphics tablet. Today, he creates many small drawings or elaborate illustrations for small and large people. He would never have succeeded in such a huge project…
on 11 September 2023
Martina Vogl, born in 1975, studied literature and art history in Munich. She and Sascha Mamczak both work in Munich publishing houses and regularly give talks for children and young people on the topics of ecology and the future. Together they have written the YA non-fiction books Es ist dein Planet – Ideen gegen den…
on 30 August 2023
Sascha Mamczak, born in 1970, studied political science, economics and public law in Munich and Edinburgh. He is intensively involved with future issues and questions of intergenerational justice. Sascha Mamczak and Martina Vogl both work in Munich publishing houses and regularly give lectures for children and young people on the topics of ecology and the…
on 30 August 2023
In her early years, Iris Genenz was head of a secret service centre, rock star and ruler of an entire kingdom. Then she grew up and was supposed to learn something “proper”. After studying to become a social pedagogue and working in various youth welfare services, she now works at a primary school where she…
on 30 August 2023
Petra Bartoli y Eckert lives near Regensburg in Bavaria. She studied social education and worked for many years with children and young people with behavioural problems. She has always loved stories – in books, on TV, on the radio or made up herself. That’s why she took a different path in 2008: After training as…
on 30 August 2023
Giulia Orecchia, born in Turin in 1955, is one of Italy’s most prolific illustrators. She lives in Milan and has illustrated books from Italo Calvino to Andrea Camilleri, from David Grossman to Luigi Malerba and was awarded the Premio Andersen.
on 17 August 2023
Heike Brandt was born in Jever in 1948 and grew up in Berlin. She was a co-founder of the Kreuzberg children’s bookshop. She has been a freelance translator, author and reviewer since 1986.
on 17 August 2023
Hilary Jean Tapper is an illustrator and creative arts therapist. Her picture books include What To Say When You Don’t Know What to Say (by Davina Bell), ABIA Children’s Picture Book of the Year, 2023.
on 9 August 2023
Harriet Grundmann, born in Berlin in 1969, grew up in Büsum among dikes and the cries of seagulls and now lives in Hamburg as an author and freelance artist. She has been writing stories for many years, which have been published by renowned publishing houses and translated into many languages. She also inspires adults and…
on 9 August 2023
Yayo Kawamura, born in 1967, grew up between Germany and Japan. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, she moved to Berlin where she studied communication design and now lives with her family. She has been working as a children’s book artist since 2001 and has developed and illustrated over 100 books, games and nonbooks….
on 9 August 2023
Clemens Bruno Gatzmaga was born in Düsseldorf and has lived in Vienna since 2010. He has worked as a digital expert, copywriter and journalist and is co-founder of an exhibition agency.
on 24 July 2023
Ana Popescu is a French artist and illustrator. Born in Romania in 1988, she studied printmaking and drawing at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Ljubljana, Bergen, Grin Gallery in London and Vienna. Her clients include Google, Rimowa, Tylko, Zeit Magazin, M le Monde,…
on 24 July 2023
Raúl Nieto Guridi was born in Seville, Spain, in 1970, the son of a draftsman and a painter, and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Seville. Early in his career he concentrated on painting and graphic design, but starting in 2010, he turned to illustrating children’s books, and has since written or provided…
on 7 June 2023
Fran Pintadera was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 1982. He studied Social Education and Psycho-pedagogy. He is an oral storyteller, he tells stories as well as writes them, sometimes in that order, sometimes the other way around, and he is also a director of social theater. As a writer he has obtained…
on 7 June 2023