Authors & Illustrators

Anna Maria Praßler was born in Swabia, Bavaria in 1983. She writes screenplays and prose, was nominated for the German Film Award and read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. She lives in Berlin with her family.

It all started (a long time ago) with a very personal re-adaptation of The Bald Cantatrice and its performance in front of a bewildered but enthusiastic family audience. Many years later, her fascination for stories – illustrated stories in particular – led Hélène to work in children’s publishing, then in a school of applied arts,…

Yukiko Noritake was born in Aichi, Japan in 1989. She is a Japanese illustrator and artist based in Sartrouville, near Paris. She graduated from the illustration department of the École de Condé Paris in 2018, she published her first book Voyage au Pays des odeurs (Actes Sud junior) which was her final year project and…

Kathrin Schrocke was born in Augsburg in 1975. She studied German and psychology and then worked for several years as a press officer in the publishing industry and as a lecturer in adult education. She has been a freelance author since 2005. Her novels for young people on realistic and socially critical themes have been…

*1972, studied animation in Potsdam-Babelsberg and has already illustrated many children’s and youth books for many different publishers. Melanie Garanin lives near Berlin with her family and a bunch of animals. There have never been hawks in her henhouse. But crazy lovers have. Her autobiographical book “Nils” recently received a lot of attention. www.melaniegaranin.com

Robert Gwisdek aka Käptn Peng *1984 in Berlin, is a German actor, musician and book author. As a musician he is known under the stage name Käptn Peng and is the singer and lyricist of the alternative hip-hop band Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi. His novel “Der unsichtbare Apfel” (The Invisible Apple) was…

Giselle Clarkson is an illustrator from Wellington, New Zealand. She once drew a picture of some biscuits that was shared online so many times that they put her on TV. As well as illustrating children’s books, Giselle is a regular contributor to the NZ School Journal. She writes a comic about children’s books for The…

Heiko Hentschel is a film illustrator, storyteller and full-time maniac. When he’s not working as a cartoonist on animated films or consuming the worst films of all time on continuous loop, he invents hair-raising adventure stories, scary-beautiful creatures and bittersweet happy endings. He lives in Hamburg with his partner. He is probably eating right now….

Ann Cathrin Raab, born in 1979, studied Illustration in Hamburg and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 2007.. She is a member of the Hamburg illustrators’ group “Die Krickelkrackels”. Her picture book Zeckengeflüster (Hinstorff, 2008) was nominated for the Oldenbourg Children’s Book Award, received the prize of the  Biennal of Illustrations Bratislava and honored…

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 madehis debut as a movie director in 2017 and was honoured with the “Kinderhörspielpreis” (Children`s Audio Drama Award) by the MDR, a German radio and…

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…