Authors & Illustrators

Gavin Bishop ONZM, Tainui, Ngāti Awa, is a leading New Zealand illustrator. He has published over 70 books internationally and been translated into 12 languages. He has written for television and theatre, as well as a libretti for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. His awards include the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement 2020, the…

Pilar Serrano Burgos (Madrid, 1977) has a degree in Primary Education and specializes in that of young children. She works as a teacher in a public school. Since 2014, the year she debuted as an author, she has published about fifteen books that have been translated into Chinese, Korean, English, Italian and Catalan.

Joaquín Camp (Buenos Aires, 1987) studied Illustration and Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. He has worked for publishers around the world and in the printed press. His illustrations have been seen in exhibitions in Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Peru and Japan. He currently lives in Madrid.

Josephine Wolf, born in Berlin in 1992, is an illustrator and communication designer majoring in children’s and educational media. Besides illustrating children’s books, animated movies, and games she is currently working on her frst graphic novel and supports diverse smart educational thinkers, for example Tetrapix and the Education Innovation Lab.

Martin Baltscheit, born in Dusseldorf in 1965, studied communication design at Folkwangschule Essen and started his career as a cartoonist. Nowadays he works as an author, illustrator, and speaker. He made his debut as a movie director in 2017 and was honoured with the “Kinderhörspielpreis” (Children`s Audio Drama Award) by the MDR, a German radio…

Barbara van den Speulhof is a passionate story creator. Picture books as door openers to the world of fantasy and empathy are a special concern of her heart. Some of her books have also enjoyed international popularity or have made their way onto the theatre stage. She also writes, produces and directs radio plays. When…

Mirjam Zels was born in Regensburg in 1989 and grew up in Dresden. She trained in illustration and graphic design in Nuremberg, Hamburg and Tel Aviv. Just like Amelie, Mirjam Zels very much enjoys travelling the world and to herself, researching, collecting stories and new adventures and celebrating all the wonderful encounters along the way….

Jens Rassmus, born in Kiel in 1967, studied illustration in Hamburg and Dundee, Scotland. He has been illustrating and writing children’s books for many years, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Austrian Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize three times and a nomination for the German Children’s Literature Award. Jens Rassmus lives…

Julia Willmann, born in 1973, writes for children and adults. Her texts were published in anthologies and literary magazines before her debut novel was es ist (fontis Verlag) was published in 2017. The work on Rascha und die Tür zum Himmel [Rascha and the Door to Heaven] was supported by the Amanda Neumayer Scholarship in…

Karin Koch, born in 1961, works as a physiotherapist in her own practice and lives in a small village near Karlsruhe. She writes children’s books, short stories and dialect. She has received several awards for her dialect stories. In 2008, she received the Rotraud Dankar Authors’ Prize and in 2009 she was a prize-winner at…

Nanen García-Contreras was born in Guadix (Granada). She obtained a degree in Fine Arts specializing in painting in Granada and later studied Design and Printmaking in Seville. She currently combines her passion for telling stories through images with teaching visual arts in secondary schools and also with ceramics, animation, sculpture, engraving… She understands creation as…

Matze Döbele was born in 1975 in the Black Forest and knows about roots, mushrooms and Pine cones therefore look great. His illustrations were awarded and exhibited internationally. He lives and works as a freelance Illustrator with his family in Hamburg. www.derdoebele.de

Stefanie Kolb has been passionate about drawing since she was a child, preferably tousled animals and all kinds of people. After studying art in Mainz and training as a computer graphic artist in Berlin, she went on to illustrate for various companies, publishing houses, advertising and film agencies. Today she lives as a freelance illustrator…

Anja Günther was born in Zwickau in 1982 and studied architecture in the Vogtland. Here she learned and discovered not only the design of buildings, but also her passion for graphic design and illustration. And so she has been working on various creative projects for many years. Through her daughters, she discovered her love for…

Henrike Lippa-Wagenmann was born in 1983. She’s an enthusiastic musician and lives and works with her husband, dog and turtle on the edge of the forest in Gütersloh. She discovered her love for music as a child and since 2005 she has been running the integrative art and music school in her hometown. Besides making…

The illustrator Britta Bolle loves to create new worlds and prefers not to look at the world through adult eyes. After studying illustration in the Netherlands, she returned to Germany in 2013, where she now lives and works. She has found her professional passion by specializing in illustrations for children. brittabolle.de  

Anna Aparicio Català (Barcelona, 1991) has a degree in Fine Arts (majoring in Drawing) from the University of Barcelona and studied illustration at the Escola de la Dona de Barcelona (Women’s School of Barcelona). She combines her work as an illustrator with that of an assistant in the children’s section of a public library. She…

Hanna Jansen is an author with commitment and passion. Fourteen children from all over the world, mostly from Africa, found a new home with her and her husband. She is particularly interested in the question of how people from very different origins and cultures can live together and enrich one another. After most of her children…

Andrea Karimé, born in 1963, grew up in Kassel between the German and Lebanese language and culture. She studied art and Music education, trained in creative writing and as a storyteller and worked as a teacher. She was awarded the Austrian Children’s Literature Award for Tee mit Onkel Mustafa (Picus, 2011), and the Children’s Book…

Verena Hochleitner was born in Vienna in 1969 and studied Graphic Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. For many years she has enjoyed living in Vienna with a view of the flak tower in Augarten. She is a freelance graphic artist, illustrator and author, mainly illustrating children’s books and designing books.