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Gabi Swiatkowska
Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator
Gabi Swiatkowska (born ) is a Polish-born artist, musician, and children's author and illustrator.
She has shown up twice on the ALA Notable Book Award list. One of the books that she illustrated, My Name Is Yoon, won the Ezra Jack Keats Award[1] and is on the New York Public Library's list of Great Children's Books[2]
Life and career
Swiatkowska was born in Tychy, Poland.
At fourteen she entered the Lyceum of Art in Bielsko-Biala, and at sixteen she immigrated to New York City, where she attended Cooper Union School of Art.[3] She is the illustrator of fifteen children's books, including A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things by the poet C.
K. Williams,[4] and the author and illustrator of one, Queen on Wednesday.[5] The book she illustrated Infinity and Me was a ALA Notable Children's Book,[6] and was named a New York