Ole Könnecke, born in Göttingen in 1961, grew up in Sweden and lives in Hamburg. Since 1990, he has designed over 30 books, for which he has received several national and international awards. Hanser has published the illustrated children’s book Wie Ich Papa die Angst vor Fremden nahm (text: Rafik Schami), six picture books about Anton, as well as Das große Buch der Bilder und Wörter (2010), Das große Bilderbuch der ganzen Welt (2014), Elvis und der Mann mit dem roten Mantel (2016), Sport ist herrlich (2017) and Desperado (2019).
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