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Antonis Papatheodoulou is a Children’s Books Author. He has published more than 40 books for children in Greece. Books of his have been transformed into theatre and puppet theatre plays and have been translated to French, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Basque, Japanese, Chinese & Korean. His book “One last letter” (illustrated by I. Samartzi) won the International Compostela Prize for picture books 2016. His book «The city that drove out war» (illustrated by M. Delivoria) won the Greek State Picturebook Book Award for 2011 and the 2011 Illustrated Children’s Book Award of «Diavazo» magazine. His book «The good and the bad Pirates» (illustrated by I. Samartzi) won the Greek State Picturebook Book Award for 2012 and the Illustrated Book Award of the Greek section of IBBY for 2012. The book «Boats that sailed Imagination» that he co-wrote with M. Angelidou won the Non Fiction Award of the Greek section of IBBY for 2015. Four of his books have been included in the White Ravens list of the International Children’s Library of Munich.

Iris Samartzi is a children’s book illustrator and an art teacher. Her work has received many awards, including the 2016 International Compostela Prize for Picture Books, the Greek State Picture Book Award (2012, 2016) and the Greek IBBY Award (2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017). In 2020, she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. When she is not illustrating books, she runs art workshops for children. She lives and works in Athens, Greece. Read more about Iris and her work at www.irissamartzi.com.