Korky Paul
[of Hamish Vigne Christie Paul] , b. 1951
Korky Paul (real name Hamish Vigne Christie Paul) grew up in in Zimbabwe and trained in an art school in Durban, South Africa. He moved to Greece in the 1970s and began working for a publishing house, illustrating books to teach Greek children English. He was trained at the California Institute of the Arts. He went on to work on further children's illustration projects in Los Angeles and London before settling in Oxford, UK. He developed the hugely successful Winnie the Witch series with Oxford University Press. He illustrated Aesop's Funky Fables (author Vivian French, Puffin Books, 1999). He has won a number of prestigious awards, including the Kate Greenaway Award and the Red House Children's Book Award. His style is frequently energetic and humorous.
Source:
Official website (accessed: June 26, 2018).
Bio prepared by Sonya Nevin, University of Roehampton, sonya.nevin@roehampton.ac.uk
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