CATARINA SOBRAL is a Portuguese award-wining illustrator, published
internationally and praised by readers and critics all over the world. Catarina is also
an animation film director.
She is the author of STRIKE, ACHIMPA, MY GRANDAD, SO SO BIG and IMPOSSIBLE,
all published by Orfeu Negro. Her books have been published in many countries and
her work is a regular presence in editorial illustrations, album covers, posters and
exhibitions around the world.
Her picture books have won prizes such as the International Award for Illustration
at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Best Picture Book by the International Comics
Festival Amadora BD or Best Children’s Book by the Portuguese Authors’ Society.
Her work was also distinguished as a finalist at the Golden Pinwheel Award, the
Nami Concours or Ilustrarte, to name a few.
IMPOSSIBLE is her most recent book, which was published in October 2018, and is
her first non-fiction book.
While Catarina does not attain to just one technique, her preference falls almost
always on a limited palette of colors, and she explores mixing textures and patterns
in full rich and bidimensional images. Catarina has illustrated thirteen books and
written ten of them.
