Authors
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Oliver Jeffers
Oliver Jeffers was born in Port Hedland in Western Australia in 1977. He moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1979 where he grew up and learned to paint and write.Oliver graduated from the University of Ulster in the spring of 2001 with a first class BA Hons degree in Design for Visual...
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Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett was born in Brighton. After leaving school with few qualifications, she spent eight years living on the road before taking the BA illustration course at Brighton University. She won the Macmillan Prize for Illustration with her first book, Wolves, which went on to win the...
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Orlagh Collins
Born in Dublin, Orlagh left Ireland after university to break into the film industry in London, working on productions such as Calendar Girls and Ali G before taking over as Head of Physical Production at Pathe Films, where she oversaw numerous award-winning films including Breakfast on Pluto...
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Emerald Fennell
Emerald Fennell is a young British actor who recently appeared on our screens in Any Human Heart, the adaptation of William Boyds bestselling novel. She has several key projects airing over the Winter period that include both cinema and television. She plays Princess Merkalova alongside Keira...
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Paddy Bouma
Paddy Bouma was born in Cape Town in 1947. She studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT, obtaining the degree BA (Fine Art) in 1967. She was awarded the McIver Scholarship by UCT for 1969 and studied Lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, as a Bursary Student of the French Gov...
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Emer Stamp
Emer Stamp is the bestselling author of the Diary of Pig series, winner in the 6-8 category of the Lollies 2018. She started out as a graphic designer before moving to a career in advertising, where, among her roles, she was Creative Director for the advertising agency behind the iconic John L...
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Paige Toon
Paige Toon was born in 1975 and grew up between England, Australia and America. A philosophy graduate, she worked at teen, film and women's magazines, before ending up at Heat magazine as Reviews Editor. Paige is married, has two small children and lives in Cambridge.
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Ellie Snowdon
Ellie Snowdon studied Drawing & Applied Arts degree at UWE (Bristol) and went on to gain an MA in Children's book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, in 2015. Ellie was twice highly commended for the Macmillan Prize in the same year. She now lives in Cambridge and works from he...
