• 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 80 children’s books and has been published in 33 languages in Africa, England, Europe, 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. Now her studio overlooks False Bay, once again near Cape Town, South Africa. (2007)