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Oliver Jeffers
Australian writer and illustrator
Oliver Brendan JeffersMBE (born 1977) is an Australian-born Northern Irish artist, illustrator and writer.
He went to the integrated secondary school Hazelwood College, then graduated from the University of Ulster in 2001. He relocated back to Northern Ireland in the early 2020s after a spell living and working in Brooklyn.[1]
Life and work
From figurative painting and installation, to illustration and picture-book making, his work has been exhibited in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, Berlin, Dublin, London, Sydney, Washington, D.C., and Belfast.[2]
He is widely known for his picture books for children, published by HarperCollins UK and Penguin US.[citation needed]How to Catch a Star debuted in 2004 to critical acclaim, and Lost and Found (2005) won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Gold Medal 2006, the Blue Peter Book Award 2006 and was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal the same yea