• Writer and Illustrator
• Born in De Doorns,
• South Africa
• Co-Regional Advisor
• of the South African
• chapter of the SCBWI
• (www.scbwi.org).

Since the publication of her first children’s picture book in 1983 Marjorie van Heerden has written and/or illustrated more than a hundred children’s books and has been published in more than 30 languages in Africa, England, Europe, the Orient, Canada and the USA. She was born in South Africa, lived in Stellenbosch near Cape Town for 20 years, in Linden, Johannesburg for a decade, travelled for eighteen months on honeymoon in a camper van around Europe, lived for a year on the banks of Lake Michigan in the USA and for four years in a forest on a mountain north of Athens in Greece. Since March 2003 she’s back in Cape Town and her loft studio in Gordon’s Bay overlooks False Bay. In the last few years she has won a couple of book prizes and has also received some really exciting illustration commissions internationally from as far away as China and locally, like André P Brink’s brilliant Afrikaans translation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Feb 2012)