Paloma Corral (born in Madrid, 1982) has a degree in Fine Arts. Since 2011 she has been working for different publishers, design studios and institutions. She is currently combining illustration work with teaching at IED Madrid. She received the Lazarillo Illustration Prize in 2018 and was selected, among others, at the Bologna Book Fair (Italy)…
Authors & Illustrators
Olivia Huth loves rainy days. Her first wellington boots, or rather those, that she can remember, were red with white dots. From an early age she was a master in dam construction; serious competition for the beavers. Now she has children of her own and very much enjoys romping around in the rain with her…
on 9 March 2020
Christine Ziegler was born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1971. After her A-levels she studied Restoration Sciences and worked in various museums. She is fascinated by the field of tension between the past and the future. Today she writes and lives near Munich with her family, which includes an excessive computer gamer, and two chatty cats near…
on 9 March 2020
Grit Poppe was born in Boltenhagen on the Baltic Sea in 1964. She studied at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig and from 1989 to 1992, she was the regional general secretary for ”Democracy Now“. Today, she writes books for children, adolescents, and adults. Her young-adult novel Weggesperrt (Locked Away) is read in schools…
on 4 March 2020
Graduated from the Superior School of Epinal Art [l’École Supérieure d’Art d’Épinal], Margaux began to actively illustrate in 2018 in Besançon. She has always dreamed of wonderful tender worlds. Margaux is very interested in the microcosm of plants, a refuge that constantly inspires her. Born at the tip of her brush, er world of soft…
on 10 February 2020
Katja Gehrmann, born in 1968, studied Illustration in Mexico, Spain and Hamburg. She works for magazines and various publishing houses. Besuch beim Hasen (Visiting Rabbit), written by Christian Oster and illustrated by Katja was nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award in 2014. Stadtbär (Town Bear) won the Children’s Book Prize NRW 2019 and was…
on 26 January 2020
David Böhm(* 1982) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Apart from his book publications, his work has been presented in art galleries in New York, Ber-lin, Kiev and other cities. He is the co-author and illustrator of Kopf im Kopf, which was nominated for the German Children‘s Literature Award 2017.
on 31 December 2019
Jonathan King’s comics have featured online and in anthologies. King is a prominent filmmaker whose debut feature Black Sheep remains one of New Zealand’s biggest-selling feature films. Its international awards include the Audience Award at the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, the Silver Raven at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and the Sir Julius Vogel Award…
on 31 December 2019
Rocío Araya was born Bilbao, Spain in 1982. She studied Fine Arts in the University of País Vasco, Spain, and finished her Master in Education in 2010.Her training as an illustrator is has been largely self-taught and also tutored by illustrators such as Violeta Lópiz, Roger Olmos, and Rotraut Susan Berner. She has published a few illustrated…
on 30 January 2019
Megan Herbert is an Australian-born, Amsterdam-based writer and illustrator whose career as a television and film writer, journalist, product designer, editorial cartoonist, and children’s book creator has spanned twenty years. www.meganherbert.com
on 26 August 2018
David Elliot is one of New Zealand’s leading children’s book illustrators. He has won many awards including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Snark. Elliot has an international reputation, and has illustrated for…
on 7 August 2018
Susanne Straßer was born in Erding in 1976 and, following her intital training in drawing studied communication design in Munich and London. Her works have been internationally awarded and exhibited, amongst others at the biennial festival for illustration in Bratislava. Her picture book The Fairy Tale of a Princess Who Wanted to be in a…
on 7 August 2018
Hunter, Eirlys (1952 –) is a London-born fiction writer for children and adults. She moved to Wellington in 1983, as ‘a refugee from Thatcher’s Britain’. In 1991, Hunter joined the Original Composition class at Victoria University, and in 1998 completed an MA in creative writing there. Her short stories have appeared in Landfall and Sport,…
on 25 February 2018
Jörg Mühle was born in 1973 in Frankfurt am Main and studied at the Offenbach School of Design and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He has been a freelance illustrator since 2000. In 2008 he won the Children’s Literature Award with At the Ark at Eight. He is a member of…
on 12 February 2018
Drawing always came natural to her, even as a child. Getting through school was harder – she spent many years struggling through. Finally, Ingrid ended up studying retail design at the Academy for Fine Arts in Lier. By then she was still drawing, and her pictures turned out remarkably well. One of her teachers saw…
on 10 February 2018
Joy Cowley is one of New Zealand’s best-loved writers. Her awards include the Margaret Mahy Medal; the NZ Post Children’s Book Award 2006; the Roberta Long Medal, Alabama, USA; and the AW Reed Award for Contribution to New Zealand Literature. She is a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. https://www.joycowley.com/
on 24 January 2018
David Barrow received the Sebastian Walker award for most promising children’s illustrator from the Cambridge School of Art. His first book Have You Seen Elephant? was shortlisted for the Waterstones Prize and is a bestseller around the world. He lives in England with his wife and son. David is a former printer, and when he…
on 27 December 2015
Nadia Faichney is a freelance illustrator based in Hamburg. She is currently undertaking a Master in Illustration Design at the HAW University of Hamburg, at the faculty of Design and Illustration. She specialises in the illustration of children’s and non-fiction books and wants to make new rooms accessible through her analogue painting and her own…
on 26 August 2015
Jens Soentgen was born in 1967, studied Chemistry, earned a doctorate in Philosophy and taught at universities in Germany and Brazil. He has been in charge of the Centre of Environmental Science at the University of Augsburg since 2002. Both of his books have been nominated for the German Youth Literature Award.
on 15 June 2015
Jürg Schubiger, born 1936 in Zurich, did his first degree in German Studies, Psychology and Philosophy, and wrote his PhD thesis on Franz Kafka. He has worked in Zurich since 1980 as a writer and psychotherapist. Jürg Schubiger writes for both children and adults; in 1996 he was awarded the German Children’s Literature Prize for…
on 15 June 2015