Nadia Budde
Nadia Budde was born in Berlin in 1967. She studied graphic art in Berlin and London. Her first children’s book – Eins zwei drei Tier (1999; published in English as One Two Three Me) – won the German Children’s Literature Award and the Oldenburg Children’s Book Prize. Her animal ABC Trauriger Tiger toastet Tomaten (2000, Tearful tiger toasting tomatoes) won the Troisdorf Picture Book Award; her comic book about childhood in ten chapters, Such dir was aus, aber beeil dich (2009, Go on, you choose, but be quick) received the 2010 German Children’s Literature Award. Nadia Budde was nominated for the 2017 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She lives with her family in Berlin.