Gabi Swiatkowska


Gabi Swiatkowska is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator. She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list. One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award and is on the New York Public Library's list of 100 Great Children's Books

Life and career

Swiatkowska was born in Tychy, Poland. At fourteen she entered the Lyceum of Art in Bielsko-Biala, and at sixteen she immigrated to New York City, where she attended Cooper Union School of Art. She is the illustrator of fifteen children's books, including A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things by the poet C.K. Williams, and the author and illustrator of one, Queen on Wednesday. The book she illustrated Infinity and Me was a 2013 ALA Notable Children's Book, and was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2012.
Swiatkowska lives in the south of France with her daughter, Żak, and her partner, the musician/songwriter Gregg Weiss. She frequently exhibits her paintings and sculptures throughout France, and she is also singer, songwriter and upright bass player in the acoustic string band quartet Tildon Krautz.

Awards

Awards for Infinity and Me by Kate Hosford, illustrated by Swiatkowska
Awards for My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvitz, illustrated by Swiatkowska
Other Awards
Books Written and Illustrated
Books Illustrated