Kitty Crowther
Kitty Crowther (born 4 April 1970, in Brussels) is a Belgian illustrator and writer of children's books. For her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the 2010 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, the biggest prize in children's literature. Biography. Kitty Crowther is the Belgian daughter of a British father and a Swedish mother. She was born and grew up in Uccle, part of Brussels, in Belgium. She and her husband now live in Blanmont with their two sons. She studied Graphic Arts at  the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. She works mainly in French, occasionally in Dutch, and has as of 2010 created some 35 books of her own, and has illustrated books of others as well, e.g. work by Carl Norac, Bart Moeyaert and Toon Tellegen. She made her debut in 1994 with "Mon royaume" ("My kingdom"). The jury of the Gouden Griffel awarded her a "Vlag en Wimpel" in 1997 for the illustrated book "Mon ami Jim". Further recognition followed in 2003 and 2005, when she received the Silver Pencil for "In het pikkedonker" ("In the pitch dark") and "Kleine Dood  en het meisje" ("Little Death and the girl"). In 2010 she received the Astrid Lindgren Award, administered by the Swedish Arts Council. In the jury's citation she was described as "the master of line but also of atmosphere".