Oliver Jeffers

Biography

Oliver Jeffers is an artist and author whose critically acclaimed picture books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold over ten million copies worldwide. His artwork has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Palais Auersperg in Vienna. Jeffers has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books Award, a Bologna Ragazzi Award, an Irish Book Award, and a United Kingdom Literary Association Award. His seventeenth book, The Fate of Fausto (Philomel, 2019), is forthcoming.

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