Born in 1966, Anna Schindler grew up in a house full of books in the Odenwald with four siblings. She was deeply impressed by personal encounters with Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende. At the age of 14, she moved to Switzerland. She wrote stories, a play and read. Since 2015, she has immersed herself as…
Authors & Illustrators
Katrin Dageför was born in 1966. Following her A-levels, she lived in Montreal for a year, then went to Krefeld to study Graphic Design. Once she had obtained her diploma, she looked for a job in Hamburg, where she worked as Art Director in various advertising agencies. After her parental leave she dedicated herself entirely…
on 22 March 2020
Raffaela Schöbitz is a freelance illustrator and author from Vienna. Her graphic novel The Blissful Islands appeared as part of the five-volume debut novel People are Sitting at the Edge of the World Laughing (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2018). In addition to graphic novels, she mainly illustrates children’s books, but also record covers or illustrations for magazines….
on 16 March 2020
Lena Hesse is a German illustrator and graphic artist who mainly works in the field of picture and children’s books. She is a trained media designer for digital and print media and studied design at the Münster University of Applied Sciences and at the Escuela de Arte y Diseño in Valencia. Lena Hesse lives in…
on 15 March 2020
Juan Feliu Sastre (Mallorca, 1971), a versatile artist, studied Engineering, Technical Architecture as well as Geography and History. Founder of the Mallorcan band Vacabou (2002-2014), in which he played an instrument and was a composer, he has collaborated with writers such as Agustín Fernández Mallo, with whom he created the group Frida Laponia, or Bernardí…
on 11 March 2020
Lisa Biggi was born in Italy in 1975. After completing her studies in Philosophy, Lisa Biggi discovered the pleasure of writing and has experimented with it in many ways. She participates in poetry contests and contributes to literary magazines. She has published a book of tragicomic stories and several children’s albums. Lisa writes at night…
on 11 March 2020
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
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
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