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Rüdiger Bertram lives with his family in Cologne, where he makes his living writing books for children and young people. He has been doing this for almost 20 years, but he has never written a unicorn book. That’s how the idea for Glitzerbande came about, because Rüdiger Bertram is a big unicorn fan. Really true…

Selim Özdogan was born in Cologne in 1971. He wanted to become a writer even as a child. Since 1995 he has published novels, stories, audio books and has received numerous prizes and scholarships. The Ant and the Frog is his first children’s book.

Clara Sophie Klein (born 1995) grew up in Copenhagen and grew up even more in Bonn. She studied design at Münster University of Applied Sciences with a focus on illustration and has been working freelance ever since. She is a part-time bartender, hobby cellist, full-time illustrator with a focus on book illustration and editorial.  

Ernst Kahl, born 1949 , is an author, painter and musician. His cartoons have appeared in Pardon, Konkret and Titanic, among others. Kahl was awarded the First Prize of the Cartoonale Düsseldorf, the Wilhelm Busch Prize, the Göttingen Elk and the Filmband in Gold for the screenplay of the Detlev Buck film “Wir können auch…

Will Gmehling, born in 1957, painted pictures for adults for a long time until he started writing books for children. In 1998 his first children’s book Tiertaxi Wolf & Co. was published by Sauerländer Verlag. Many picture and children’s books followed, which were translated into numerous languages. The children’s novel Freibad [The Lido] received several…

Eleonora Pace is an Italian based illustrator, specialized in picture books and school books. She also works as an art teacher at La Bottega del cigno in Padua, where she gives painting courses for children and adults. eleonorapace.wordpress.com

Lisa Rammensee was born in Nuremberg in 1990 and is proud of her Franconian roots. Via Trier, where her communication design studies gave her a lot of helpful knowledge about design and layout, she finally came to Hamburg. There she is working on her Master’s degree in illustration at the HAW. Her heart beats for…

Sandra Grimm lives in northern Germany with her husband and children. She has been writing books for young and older children for many years. When wild capybaras or other adventurous creatures come in and tell her stories, she likes to write them down for curious reading children.

Thais Mesquita was born in Brazil in 1989 and has lived in Germany for several years. She studied fine arts in her home country and media art and design at Bauhaus University-Weimar and has been working as a freelance illustrator, designer and 2D artist since 2011. She likes to experiment with different materials, textures and…

Corinna Antelmann, born in Bremen in 1969, has lived in Upper Austria since 2006. She studied literature and film at the University of Hildesheim and worked as a freelance author, dramaturge and lecturer after positions at the Theaterwerkstatt Hannover and Trickompany Hamburg. She has published novels, plays, essays and received numerous scholarships and prizes for…

Katharina Bendixen, born in Leipzig in 1981, studied book science and Hispanic studies in Leipzig and Alicante and lives in Leipzig with her family. She writes books for children and adults. Her texts have been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Kranichsteiner Literature Promotion Prize (2014), the Heinrich Heine Scholarship (2017) and a working…

Elizabeth Knox is an adventurous and imaginative fiction writer who has published several novels for adults and children, as well as autobiographical novellas. Her writing is never static, and moves from historical drama, to science fiction, to memoir. Her novel, The Vintner’s Luck, first published in 1998, was a huge success with readers and critics…