Our authors

Alik Arzoumanian

Alik Arzoumanian is an illustrator living in Cambridge, MA, USA. She has illustrated several books for children published in the US, UK, South Africa, and Lebanon. Her current projects include a picture book about the Armenian pumpkin dish "ghapama".

Hasmig Chahinian

When she was a child, Hasmig Chahinian loved reading, but couldn’t always find books she liked in Armenian. Afterwards, she dedicated her PHD thesis to Armenian children’s literature, researching closely the reading wishes of Armenian children in Lebanon, France and Turkey. She founded Kotot publications to offer high-standard books in Armenian, books she would have loved to read when she was a child... And that she really enjoys creating now!

David Pintor

David Pintor, an internationally renowned Spanish illustrator, lives by the sea in Galicia. He illustrates books, collaborates with newspapers, and holds exhibitions all around the world. His work has been selected several times for the Illustrators’ exhibition of the Bologna International Children’s Book Fair and for the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava. His books have been part of the White Ravens selection three times. David loves to travel to faraway lands and he always carries a sketchbook in his bag, because he never knows when he will get a good idea for a book…