He was born in Kiel, Germany, in 1972. "I only use a pencil, of normal HB hardness, because I like to concentrate on a tool and remove everything, from the thinnest line to the darkest black surface." He was born in Kiel, Germany , in 1972. He studied art at the Higher School of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. After his debut with It was dark and suspiciously quiet received several awards including the Grand Prix International Bratislava Biennial. In Germany he has received the LesePeter Prize and the Second Prize of the Troisdorf Foundation; and in Spain he has been awarded the Visual Daniel Gil Prize for the best illustrator. His rigorous style, in addition to demonstrating a vast professionalism, opens new paths in the way of telling stories, a real invitation to each reader to penetrate the original worlds, magical and poetic, that his imagination projects. Libros del Zorro Rojo has published Dark and suspiciously quiet (2007); A tiny light came out of nowhere (2009); The shepherd, the sheep, the wolf and the sea (2010); The mountain (2012); When the houses returned floating (2013) and Lunámbula (2017). einarturkowski.de