Appearing:
Author Website
www.korkypaul.com
Early Years and beyond
Korky Paul was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951. He studied art at the Durban School of Art in Natal, South Africa and then spent three years working for an advertising agency in Cape Town. In 1976 as Korky puts it he "fled for Europe" and got a job illustrating and designing educational books in Greece. He then spent some time working for an advertising agency in London and Los Angeles and then studied film animation at Cal Arts in California.
Korky Paul is married with two children. He works in Oxford but spends the summer living it up in Greece.
First drawing attempts
On his first day at work, the young art graduate Korky was called the new "drawer". On reflection, it is a fair description of what he did then and what he does now-draw picture books. He likes the word, preferring it to artist or even illustrator.
Korky's first children's book was published in the USA in 1980. It was a pop-up book called The Crocodile and Dumper Truck. During the 1980's Korky illustrated a number of children's books and in 1986 he illustrated his first book for Oxford University Press, Winnie the Witch, which won the Children's Book Award in 1987.
Korky - the drawer
Since then, Korky has illustrated many more successful children's books for Oxford University Press. He has continued with his adventures of Winnie the Witch and her loveable cat Wilbur, as well as illustrating many children's poetry books in collaboration with John Foster. He has become a hugely popular figure in the children's book world and he is especially popular with the young children who read his books and are carried away into a fantasy world by the illustrations.
Recommended Reads
Winnie The Witch
Oxford University Press
978-0192726438
Winnie at the Seaside
Oxford University Press
978-0192727251
Winnie's New Computer
Oxford University Press
978-0192726476
Publisher
Oxford University Press