Anna Cunha - Illustrator

Anna Cunha is an award wining Brazilian illustrator, living and working in Belo Horizonte. She is graduated in Fine Arts from Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Brazil and post-graduated in Illustration from EINA - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has illustrated more than 30 books for Brazilian and foreign publishers, and has won the FNLIJ and AEILIJ Prize (Brazil) and the Northern Lights Book Award (US). She's also been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Medal (UK) and for the Jabuti Prize (Brazil), been awarded with a special mention at the João-de-Barro Prize, and A Story about Afiya was chosen among the 25 Best Children's Book of 2020, by the New York Times. She was selected as one of 10 the Brazilian entrants for the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava 2019 and 2021.