Illustrate the difficult

She was born in Lima, Peru. Her picture books have been 
translated into 20 languages, and some of them have been reprinted 25 times to date. Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities such as New York, Berlin, Rome, Taiwan, Tokyo, Washington, Madrid, Frankfurt and Vienna, amongst others. 
As an author, she has won some of the most prestigious awards in children’s and young adult literature, such as the Bologna Regazzi Awards 2024; the Grand Prix Sorcières 2020, Libreter 2020, the Grand Jury Prize at the BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition 2021, Zlata Hruska 2021, A la Orilla del Viento, The White Ravens 2020 and 2024,
DPictus 2020 and 2024, amongst others.
 

Yolanda holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, having  specialised in graphic design back in 2007. She currently works as an illustrator in both the publishing and advertising sectors. She enjoys exploring concepts, communication and storytelling, and to this end she employs concise forms and compositions alongside images with a simple aesthetic. She won the Euskadi Prize for Literature in the illustration category  n 2018, and his illustrations have been selected and exhibited internationally.

She grew up around art – a home filled with endless choices to choose from:  acrylic, oil and watercolors, clay, mounds of yarn, piles of material and spools of colorful thread. She was excited to see the patterns and textures, always “borrowing” her mother’s materials (and sewing machine) wanting to unleash the maker in me and share in the joy of creating.  Her project Forbidden Palestinian flora finds life in thread and tatreez, each stitch a testament to memory, resilience, and the subtle revolt of staying rooted under occupation.