Ebrahimi, Payam
Payam Ebrahimi was born in 1988 and started writing stories when he was 5. Then he went to school and kept writing stories. When he was 16, he started working for magazines as a humorist and kept writing stories at the same time. When he grew up, he studied nuclear physics and kept writing. As a university student, he worked as a graphic designer, film editor, teacher, journalist, and kept writing always. Now he is working as a copywriter and still keep writing stories.
Junakovic, Svjetlan
Picture book author, illustrator, and sculptor. Svjetlan Junakovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia in 1961. He grad-uated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan in 1985. He is a docent at the Academy of Fine Arts in Za-greb and currently teaches at the International School of Illustration in Sarmede, Italy. He has been nominated three times and shortlisted twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. His works have been awarded Grigor Vitez Prize for the best book five times, and have been selected for Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s Illustrator Exhibition several times. The Big Book of Animal›s Por-trait has been selected into the Bologna Illustrations Exhibition 50 years Master Exhibition. So far his works have been translated into dozens of languages and get published worldwide.